The Joyless Street
Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.
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Joyless Street (Silent)
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 24, 2012
- Originally Released: 1925
- Label: American Pop Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen & Werner Krauss | |
Directed by | G.W. Pabst |
Entertainment Reviews:
The picture has minor virtues and major defects.
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Variety
Despite Garbo, it's heavy going -- an official classic that hasn't quite earned the title.
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Chicago Reader
It later came as a major revelation, both when compared with Pabst's later work and in the context of the development of a film narrative able to accommodate a large number of characters.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
about the consequences of desperate poverty and decadent wealth
DVDLaser
As the film cuts between scenes of wretched poverty and luxurious excess, Pabst's imagery and Garbo's magnetic presence more than make up for a rather weak drama.
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Film4
Description by OLDIES.com:
This early silent classic from director G.W. Pabst (who would go on to make the acclaimed "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of A Lost Street"), follows the desperate lives of people inhabiting a single street in bleak, post-World War I Vienna. Highly-controversial and heavily-censored at the time of its release, the Austrian-made film features Asta Nielsen as a desperate woman forced into prostitution to provide for her family. Warner Krauss stars as the street's domineering butcher, while a young Greta Garbo also features in what is said to have been her personal favorite role; it was also her last before coming to America, where far greater fame awaited her.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 53,109
- UPC: 874757019192
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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