The Docks of New York
Drama, Romance
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1928
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A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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Details
Runtime:
76 min
Release date:
16 Sep 1928
Country:
US
Languages:
xx
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
7 wins total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Sternberg suppresses direct emotional appeal to concentrate on something infinitely fine: a series of minute, discrete moral discoveries and philosophical realignments among his characters.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
27 Feb 2013
fresh:
In a way lost to contemporary social-work movies, von Sternberg's unsentimental poetic realism ennobles his lower-class protagonists through beauty. Classic.
– Nick Pinkerton,
Village Voice,
16 Mar 2010
fresh:
It fulfills their requirements, somewhat obscure to this reviewer, of rhythm, plasticity and unity. In simpler and more popular terms, it seems to be exceptionally good motion picture entertainment.
– Glenn Collins,
New York Times,
16 Oct 2007
fresh:
It's a corking program picture, thanks to George Bancroft, a good story and Julian Johnson's titles.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
16 Oct 2007