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Writers:
Pierre Louÿs (novel)
John Dos Passos (adaptation)
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Release Date:
1935 (Turkey) more
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Tagline:
Kiss me .. and I'll break your heart!
Plot:
Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone... more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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What a woman! more (20 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Marlene Dietrich ... Concha Perez
Lionel Atwill ... Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar

Edward Everett Horton ... Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Alison Skipworth ... Senora Perez

Cesar Romero ... Antonio Galvan
Don Alvarado ... Morenito (bullfighter)
Tempe Pigott ... Tuerta
Francisco Moreno ... Alphonso (Paquito's secretary) (as Paco Moreno)
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Hank Mann ... Foreman on snowbound train (scenes deleted)
Joel McCrea ... Antonio Galvan (replaced by Cesar Romero) (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Caprice Espagno (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
Germany:75 min | USA:79 min | Portugal:80 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Certification:
Portugal:17 | Portugal:(Banned) (original rating) | UK:A (original rating) (1935) | UK:U (re-rating) (2006) | France:U | Portugal:M/12 | USA:Approved (PCA #538)

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Trivia:
In Maximillian Schell's documentary "Marlene", Marlene Dietrich said that this was her favorite of her films. more
Quotes:
Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito': If you catch a man stealing, shoot him. Less trouble afterwards. more
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Referenced in Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Then It Isn't Love more

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
What a woman!, 10 November 2004
Author: theowinthrop from United States

The last of the Von Sternberg - Marlene Dietrich collaborations and was certainly the loveliest in terms of photography and Ms Dietrich's costumes. But was it the best of the series? All of them (except the first - THE BLUE ANGEL) seem slightly corny by modern standards of love or sex films. The hardened nightclub singer who stumbles blindly on after her legionaire lover (Gary Cooper) in the sand dunes at the end of MOROCCO or the caring wife and mother shattering her reputation to save husband (Herbert Marshall) and son in BLONDE VENUS (doing a number in a gorilla suit) are both preposterous. But due to the director and his sultry star we don't care and still enjoy both. In terms of story line, only THE SCARLET EMPRESS has a stronger one, but that is based on the life of Catherine the Great and the death of her idiot husband Peter III of Russia (Sam Jaffe). Odd as it may seem this film may be the best in terms of script in the series.

Concha is a man-eater, and Don Pasquale is her favorite meal. His infatuation is used by her to full advantage, and she literally destroys his reputation and career. But she also destroys other men. A bull fighter she humiliates Pasquale with (Atwill tells us) subsequently committed suicide. And she seems able to twist and turn both the Mayor (Edward Everett Horton) and the young radical (Cesar Romero) with ease as well. So she is a devil, who gives a few moments of pleasure to the men but chews them up alive.

But the conclusion is curious. Pasquale rejects while recovering in the hospital from the wound in the duel. She expects him to call for her, but he doesn't and it strikes her as odd. Her desertion of Romero at the Spanish/French border seems in keeping with her general behavior to all her men...but it suggests that Pasquale's act of rejection has changed the formula a bit. Is she going back to try to tempt him again (most likely) or is she curious at the experience of a man rejecting her finally. Von Sternberg wisely leaves the issue in the air as this great movie ends.

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