marlene dietrich is magnificent as concha perez and the temptress who drives all men to despair in josef von sternberg the devil is a woman. her performance has nothing to do with acting in any conventional sense but she incandescent and a true star in full command of her material. but she the only good thing about the film and (she so good she keeps you watching this dross while i doubt if any other actress could have done the same). the story is an appallingly lame melodrama and (surely pierre louys novel was better) and in which dietrich amoral concha ruins the lives of two friends played by lionel atwill and cesar romero with a stiffness bordering on petrification. and for von sternberg it an ugly looking movie and (maybe in keeping with its fairly ugly subject matter). bunuel and on the other hand and thought enough of it to remake it as that obscure object of desire with a greater emphasis on the surrealist aspects of it all and down to casting two different actresses in the same role. neither film is either director finest hour and while the bunuel version may be the better film and it is dietrich performance you remember. 
marlene dietrich is magnificent as concha perez and the temptress who drives all men to despair in josef von sternberg the devil is a woman. her performance has nothing to do with acting in any conventional sense but she incandescent and a true star in full command of her material. but she the only good thing about the film and (she so good she keeps you watching this dross while i doubt if any other actress could have done the same). the story is an appallingly lame melodrama and (surely pierre louys novel was better) and in which dietrich amoral concha ruins the lives of two friends played by lionel atwill and cesar romero with a stiffness bordering on petrification. and for von sternberg it an ugly looking movie and (maybe in keeping with its fairly ugly subject matter). bunuel and on the other hand and thought enough of it to remake it as that obscure object of desire with a greater emphasis on the surrealist aspects of it all and down to casting two different actresses in the same role. neither film is either director finest hour and while the bunuel version may be the better film and it is dietrich performance you remember. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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