1928 · drama · romance · silent
The Docks of New York
Directed by Josef von Sternberg1h 16m1928
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
Our read: The Docks of New York (1928) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · romance · silent entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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