IMDb plot summary: A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou.
Morocco tells the story of a romance between a soldier and a nightclub singer in World War I Morocco. He's a womanizer, and she might just be the woman that gets him to settle down. Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich play the main two, and while Dietrich is really relatable in this, Cooper is not. He plays a wildly unpleasant, quick-to-fight soldier who thinks that it's his job to fix everything, and I'm not really excited to see Dietrich chasing after him as if he's anything worth chasing. On top of that, the story and how it builds is really not very interesting. I'm writing this review a couple days after watching it and I had to go look up on Wikipedia to find out how it ended because it had so little impact on me that I genuinely did not remember. It may be worth the watch if you're a big fan of Dietrich -- she does have some good song-and-dance numbers -- but otherwise it's probably one that you can skip.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Morocco < Hustle & Flow
Morocco < War of the Buttons
Morocco > In Cold Blood
Morocco > Alfie (2004)
Morocco > A Most Wanted Man
Morocco < The Cocoanuts
Morocco < Magic in the Moonlight
Morocco > Copying Beethoven
Morocco < My Dinner with Andre
Morocco < Spirits of the Dead
Morocco < Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Morocco > Get Smart
Final spot: #2741 out of 3527, or 22%.
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