Morocco (1930)
Director:
Josef von Sternberg
Tagline:
« Dedicated to the Legion of Women Who, Without Uniforms, Flags or Glory, Follow Their Men Into Danger and Death! (Print Ad- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ((Pittsburgh, Penna.)) 5 December 1930) »
Actors:
Légionnaire Tom Brown
Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
Monsieur La Bessiere
Adjutant Caesar
Madame Caesar
Rating:
(8’478 votes)
(8’478 votes)
Quotes:
« Amy Jolly: Every time a man has helped me, there has been a price. What's yours?
»
« La Bessiere: My price? A smile.
»
« Amy Jolly: I haven't got much more.
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« Amy Jolly: You'd better go now. I'm… beginning to like you.
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« Tom Brown: I've told women about everything a man can say. I'm going to tell you something I've never told a woman before: I wish I'd met you ten years ago.
»
Trailer:
Trailer [OV]
Runtime:92 minutes
Plots:
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto’s cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?
Parisian chanteuse Amy Jolly has just arrived in Morocco to work in a nightclub. At the club, her scandalous behavior attracts the attention of many in the crowd, but most specifically the womanizing Legionnaire Tom Brown, and the wealthy Monsieur La Bessiere, who Amy previously met en route to Morocco. Tom and Amy quickly fall in love, but Tom questions whether she is in love with him, he believing that she is really in love with La Bessiere’s money. So instead of deserting the Legion and running off with Amy as they had discussed, Tom is called off into battle with both he and Amy never knowing if they will see each other again. While Tom is away, La Bessiere hopes to prove that Tom is correct as La Bessiere, who is also in love with Amy and will do anything for her, tries to woo her.
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