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화려한 서커스단을 배경으로 서커스 단원 간의 복잡한 인간 관계를 묘사한 영화

성경에 나오는 괴력의 사나이 삼손(빅터 마추어)은 젊은 날엔 방황하며 지낸다.그는 유대민족의 청년이지만, 이방인인 블레셋족의 아름다운 처녀 세마다(안젤라 란스베리)와 결혼하려 한다. 그러나, 그와의 결혼을 반대하는 그녀의 친척들이 공격해오고, 급기야 그 와중에 그녀는 살해당하고 만다. 삼손은 그에 대한 복수를 하기 위해 당나귀 턱뼈로 블레셋족을 닥치는 대로 죽인다. 한편, 죽은 세마다의 여동생인 데릴라는 삼손이 지닌 괴력을 탐지하기 위해 그와 결혼한다. 삼손은 아름답고 변덕스런 데릴라에게 빠졌지만, 자신의 힘의 비밀을 쉽게 알려주려 하지 않는다. 잘못된 정보를 실천에 옮긴 블레셋족들의 낭패를 즐겁게 구경하는 삼손. 하지만 데릴라는 그를 구슬려서 결국 긴 머리칼에 힘의 원천임을 알아내고, 머리칼을 자른다. 이리하여 블레셋족의 노예로 전락한 그는 10년 동안 감금되는데, 그제서야 여호와를 찾으며 그동안의 죄를 참회한다. 그동안 그의 머리칼은 계속 자라지만, 어느 누구 하나 눈여겨보는 이가 없다. 마침내 10년 후 블레셋족이 잔치가 있던 날, 삼손을 이끌어내서 희롱하려고 한다. 이때 이미 눈이 먼 그는 거대한 팔레스타인 사원의 기둥을 잡고, 자신의 마지막 힘을 다 써서 무너뜨린다. 처음에는 비웃던 사람들이 그의 괴력으로 빚어진 참사에 놀라고, 데릴라 역시 그 소동의 와중에 비참한 최후를 맞이한다.

톰은 그의 양자인 매튜와 텍사스에서 거대한 농장을 만든다. 두 부자는 나름대로 편안하게 살고 있었다. 어느 날, 그 둘은 엄청난 수의 소 떼를 몰고 텍사스에서 미조리 방향을 따라서 북으로 이동을 하게 된다. 그러나 그들의 여정 속에서 밝혀지는 톰과 매튜에 관련된 새로운 과거와 톰의 강압적이고 자기 멋대로인 행동들 때문에 매튜는 소 떼를 몰고 켄사스로 가려고 마음을 먹는다. 매튜는 결국 톰 몰래 소 떼을 몰고 떠나게 되고 톰은 복수를 마음먹고 추격을 시작하는데...

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?

1763년 중죄인 애비 헤일은 영국에서 처형을 당하거나 또는 식민지에서 도제사리로 보내져 14년간 노역을 하든 둘 중 하나를 선택해야 하는 여인의 약정에 입찰하기 위해 두 사람은 런던에서 버지니아로 돌아가는 같은 배에 타고 있다. 승자인 홀덴은 친절하게 그녀에게 자유를 말하고 그의 약혼자를 만나러 배로 간다. 패자는 계약을 무효로 하고 여인을 국경지방으로 데리고 간다.

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his sissy son.

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"

Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.

Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.

The tale of Clint Farrell, an aspiring lawyer who must use both his wits and his brawn to save his town from being taken over by a villainous railroad financier.

A rancher who becomes a pilot staunchly defends the newly formed Civil Air Patrol from the cattle barons who fail to see the value of airplanes on the range.

Unknown to oil company president Ross, his man Quinn is pulling a swindle on the independent drillers. Quinn controls both the Judge and the Marshal. But when the Marshal is accidentally killed, Wild Bill Elliott is brought in as the new Marshal and things begin to change.

In this western, fake settlers make themselves at home on an ex-ranger's ranch and drive him away. A shady newspaper publisher and a gambler then conspire to take over the land. Fortunately, another ranger endeavors to help his pal. Enlisting the aide of his fellow rangers, they get oust the homesteaders. The publisher and the gambler shoot each other and the retired ranger gets his ranch back.

Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport war materials to the Aleutians. Problems arise when a crooked contractor decides that his interests are more important than the war effort.

Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.

An agent (Tim Holt) goes undercover as an outlaw and almost gets lynched.

베어너클시대(맨주먹복싱시합)였던 1880년대, 미국의 전설적인 헤비급 복서 존 L. 설리반에게 복싱의 신기술을 보여주며 당당히 KO승을 한 제임스 코벳의 실화를 바탕으로 만든 영화. 1880년대 샌프란시코에서 복싱은 불법에다 저급 스포츠로 취급되었다. 유명 회원제 클럽의 회원들은 글로브를 장착하고 KO룰을 적용시킨 이른바 ‘퀸즈베리룰’이 복싱을 좀 더 신사적인 스포츠로 만들어 줄 것이라 생각하고 새로운 룰의 적용을 지지한다. 클럽의 회원들은 후원하던 젊은 복서 제임스 코벳은 퀸즈베리룰 도입이래 최고의 선수가 되었다. 그러나 아직 어린 짐에게 성공의 달콤한 맛은 독이 되었고 결국 그는 자만과 욕심으로 후원자까지 잃게 되었다. 그러나 이 같은 시련 속에서도 그는 자신만의 스텝을 갈고 닦아 승승장구했으며 결국 세계챔피언이자 자신의 어린 시절 우상이었던 존 L. 설리번과 경기를 하게 된다. 당시 최고의 미남배우였던 에롤 플린이 주인공 짐 코벳 역을 맡았으며 사실적인 권투경기의 묘사로 평론가로부터 호평을 들었던 작품이다.

Riding Through Nevada is a western starring Charles Starrett

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.

When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.

Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin (!), who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector (Norman Willis) who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor (Davision Clark), is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments. Britt Wood takes over from Cliff Edwards as Starrett's comical sidekick, while band singer Rose Ann Stevens makes an impressive acting debut as the heroine.

키웨스트에 해적들이 우글거리면서 배를 일부러 난파 시켜 화물을 건지고 이익을 얻고 있었다. 주빌리의 선장인 잭 스튜어트도 부선장이 해적과 손을 잡고 배신을 해서 화물을 잃게 되었다. 키웨스트에서 록시 클레이본을 만나게 되고 사랑을 하게 된다. ​ 데보로사가 있는 찰스턴으로 돌아간 잭은 킹 커틀러의 짓이라는 걸 알지만 아무도 증거를 찾지 못한다. 데보로사의 직원인 잭은 증기선인 써던크로스를 지휘하는 것이 소원이지만 배가 난파하여 펠리칸호를 타고 대기하게 됐다. 록시는 데보로 준장을 만나기 위해 찰스턴으로 가지만 데보로사의 변호사인 스티브 톨리버를 만나게 된다. ​ 잭을 돕기 위해 스티브를 계속 만나는데 스티브는 록시를 사랑하게 된다. 록시는 잭과 결혼을 하려고 하지만 스티브가 그걸 막는다. 킹 커틀러는 잭과 스티브를 고래잡이 배에 팔아 넘기려고 하지만 실패한다. 잭은 자신이 써던크로스의 지휘를 맡게 된 사실을 알게 된다. 하지만 아팠던 데보로 준장이 죽고 스티브가 데보로 회장이 된다. 그렇게 되면 자신이 지휘를 하지 못하게 될 거란 걸 킹으로부터 들은 잭은 킹과 돈을 잡고 일부러 써던크로스를 난파 시키기로 한다. ​ 써던크로스는 난파당하고 재판을 하게 된다. 재판을 하는 과정에서 배에 록시의 사촌인 드루실라가 몰래 탔다는 사실이 드러난다. 증거를 찾기 위해 잭과 스티브는 난파당한 배를 찾아간다. 바다 속에서 왕문어가 나타나 스티브가 위험에 빠진다. ​ 잭은 스티브를 구하고 자신은 죽는다. 해적들의 모든 소행이 밝혀지자 킹의 동생인 댄을 사랑하는 드루실라가 죽은 걸 알고, 킹의 모든 짓을 이야기하려 하지만 킹은 동생을 쏴 죽인다. 위기의 상황에서 필 선장은 킹을 죽이고 록시와 스티브는 연인으로 발전한다.

Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.

Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal relative is an impostor.

It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowners. The El Dorado Mine Co. wants the land of Don Ortega for the minerals and is using the settlers and his friend Don Carlos to take the land over. But Tucson is on the side of Roberto and see's that something is not right with all the trouble they have been having. But the situation turns ugly for Don Ortega when Roberto is set up for a murder he did not commit.

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.

Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.

In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.

Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

잭슨시를 대표하는 상원의원이 임기 중에 급사한다. 잭슨시의 다른 상원의원인 조세프 페인은 잭슨시 주지사에게 전화를 걸어 새로운 상원의원을 선출하라고 지시한다. 새로운 의원의 조건은 페인과 그의 재정적 후원자인 짐 테일러의 댐건설 계획을 방해하지 않을 인물이어야 한다는 단서가 붙는다. 주지사는 고민 끝에 보이스카웃 단장인 제퍼슨 스미스를 임명한다. 아이들과 다람쥐나 잡으러 쫓아다니는 순박한 촌뜨기야말로 정치판의 꼭두각시 역할로 적격이라는데 의견을 같이했기 때문이다. 스미스는 죽은 아버지의 친구이자 존경하는 정치가인 페인 의원과 함께 워싱턴으로 향한다. 상원의원으로 임명된 제퍼슨은 잭슨시의 월워크 계곡에 소년 야영장을 만들려는 계획을 입안하여 상정하려 하지만 월워크 계곡에 댐을 건설하려는 페인과 테일러의 계획과 맞부딪친다. 이에 페인은 스미스를 등원시키지 않으려고 음모를 꾸미는데...

Cartwright's racket is to sell a ranch and then have Mason and his men drive the ranchers away so he can resell it. If they want their money back he gives it to them and then has them killed. Jack arrives and learns that Mason and his men are the culprits but that they have a boss. He suspects Cartwright and sets trap to expose him.

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.

약혼자 프레스톤에게 화가 난 줄리는 그들의 약혼이 발표될 예정인 뉴올리언스의 중요한 사교계 행사 올림포스 무도회에서 프레스톤을 난처하게 만들 계획을 세운다. 미혼 여성들은 관례상 흰 드레스를 입는데 줄리는 빨간 드레스를 입고 나타난다. 결과적으로 줄리의 기대와 어긋나게 약혼이 깨진다. 3년 후, 프레스톤은 아내와 함께 줄리의 농장을 방문하는데, 프레스톤이 뉴올리언스 전역에 유행하던 치명적인 황열병에 걸린다.

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.

A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

18세기 러시아 왕실의 성과 배신을 신랄하게 묘사...프러시아의 어린 공주 소피아는 러시아 여왕의 조카이자 정신박양아 공작인 피터와의 결혼을 위해 러시아로 향한다. 거만한 여왕은 왕실의 피가 지속되길 바라지만 소피아는 정박아인 남편을 혐오한다. 그러나 러시아와 러시아 군대를 좋아하는 소피아는 자신의 임무에 충실히 아들을 순산한다. 누구의 아들인지 알 수 없는 왕손이지만 어느 누구하나 개의치 않는데... 시간이 흘러 여왕이 죽은 후, 소피아는 남편 피터를 몰아내고 여왕에 군림한다.

찰리 채플린, 버스터 키튼, 해롤드 로이드 등과 함께 할리우드 슬랩스틱 코미디의 전성기를 상징하는 존재인 막스 형제가 총출연한 영화. 작고 영세한 국가인 프리도니아가 파산위기에 처하자 자산가인 티스데일 여사는 파이어플라이를 대통령 자리에 앉히면 큰 돈을 기부하겠다고 제안한다. 한편 이웃나라 실바니아의 대사 트렌티노는 프리도니아를 수중에 넣을 속셈으로 파이어플라이 주변에 두 명의 스파이를 파견한다. 그루초 특유의 빠르고 쏜살같은 냉소적인 대사들과 하포와 치코의 눈부신 콤비플레이가 빛을 발하는 매혹적인 작품.

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

1차 세계대전 중의 비엔나. 손님을 찾아 거리를 헤매던 매춘부 마리에게 한 사내가 다가오고, 그는 마리가 상상하지도 못했던 제안을 한다. 고위 정보요원인 사내는 마리에게 스파이가 되라고 한다. ‘X-27’이라는 암호명을 부여받은 마리는 러시아 장교에게 접근해 기밀정보를 빼내라는 명령을 받는다. 그런데 크라나우 대령과 가까워질수록 마리는 그를 사랑하게 된다. 스턴버그는 스파이멜로의 통속적인 법칙을 따르는 듯하면서도 특유의 스타일 속에서 희생적 사랑에 대해 이야기한다. 지극히 영화적인 공간과 빛과 그림자로 만들어낸 가장무도회 장면은 단연 명장면으로 꼽힌다. 또한, 거리의 매춘부에서 스파이, 그리고 위험한 사랑에 빠지는 여인으로까지 변화무쌍하게 이어지는 디트리히의 열연 역시 압권이다.

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

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