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Features: DVD, English, Subtitled
A traveling night club singer gets hired by an American expatriate who runs a casino in Macao and specializes in converting stolen jewelry into cash. Complications ensue when one of her traveling companions turns out to be a cop.System Requirements:Run Time: 81 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE
"A wonderfully tongue-in-cheek scripted RKO adventure story...Jane Russell enthralls..." Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
"...astonishingly beautiful, in the best Sternberg tradition." The Films of Josef von Sternberg
Editor's Note
A film noir of adventures set in the Far East's most notorious port with Rrussell portraying a singer and Mitchum as the man she loves.
Plot Summary
Set in (where else?) Macao, China, film dramatizes the intertwined lives of three transplanted Americans: a |droll, sexy chanteuse, a former soldier who's on-the-lam, and an undercover cop assigned to bring a local crime boss to justice.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Turner Home Entertainment |
| Release Date: 1/23/2007 |
| Running Time: 81 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1952 | | Catalog ID: T7782 | | UPC: 00053939778229 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | DVD Beaver 8 of 10
My expectations for the 1952 "Macao" were not very high, although I think that Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932) may be the most romantic movie ever made. His compositions built around Marlene Dietrich got more and more stylized (and they were already very stylized in "Shanghai Express") as the 1930s wore on...At some point, Hughes was quoted as saying that supporting Jane Russell was not a difficult engineering challenge. He was, of course, referring to designing brassieres for her. Building movies around her was more difficult. In repose, she could look like a femme fatale, but does not seem to have been able to act the part. Sternberg was more interested in showing off goddess archetypes than in acting or plotting and was not concerned about the genre requirement of a femme fatale. - Gary W. Tooze
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