Rotten
Louise Brooks, especially imported for the title role, does not pan out, due to no fault of hers. She is quite unsuited to the vamp type which was called for by the play from which the picture was made.
Variety Staff, Variety
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Pandora's Box
Overview
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Director and cast
- G.W. Pabst Director
- Louise Brooks as Lulu
- Fritz Kortner as Dr. Peter Schön
- Francis Lederer as Alwa Schön
- Carl Goetz as Schigolch
- Krafft-Raschig as Rodrigo Quast
- Alice Roberts as Anna Geschwitz
- Daisy D'Ora as Charlotte Marie Adelaide von Zarnikow
- Gustav Diessl as Jack the Ripper
- Michael von Newlinsky Cast
- Sig Arno Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One of the classic films of the German silent era.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Brooks overwhelms the lens with her magnetic eyes.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
If you've never seen Brooks -- or Pandora's Box -- you've missed one of the most extraordinary personalities and films of the silent movie era.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
The movie remains one of the most insightful depictions of the elemental incongruity between man's nature and woman's.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
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