3 Silent Classics By Josef Von Sternberg (Blu-ray)

Vienna-born, New Yorkraised Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express) directed some of the most influential and stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his later star-making collaborations with actor Marlene Dietrich, von Sternberg began his career during the final years of the silent era, dazzling audiences and critics with his films dark visions and innovative cinematography. The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three of von Sternbergs greatest works, gritty evocations of gangster life (Underworld), the Russian Revolution (The Last Command), and working-class desperation (The Docks of New York) rendered as shadowy movie spectacle.UnderworldJosef von Sternbergs riveting breakthrough is widely considered the film that launched the American gangster genre as we know it. George Bancroft (Stagecoach) plays heavy Bull Weed, a criminal kingpin whose jealous devotion to his moll, Feathers (Evelyn Brent), gets him into hot water with a