The Docks of New York 1928 new soundtrack torrent

The Docks of New York (1928)

Director: Josef von Sternberg

With: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova

DVD Rip from The Criterion Collection

with a new, unprecedented music soundtrack*


AVI (Generic MPEG-4)
Codec: Xvid
Resolution: 666x500
Frame rate: 24.24 fps
Data size: 632.28 MB
Data rate: 1133.06 kbits/s
Audio: Stereo, 44.100 kHz
B&W
English title cards
Spanish subtitles (srt)
Duration: 1:16:24

A late-silent jewel directed by the legendary Joseph von Sternberg, the first in which his prodigious pictorial genius was fully realized. The Docks of New York is an elegant and elegiac love story about battered souls at the bottom of the barrel. It’s also the most emotionally affecting film of the director’s exhilarating if erratic career.


*About this soundtrack:
Extracts from symphonic works by various XXth Cent. composers are alternated with vintage piano-roll jazzy clanks.

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"Von Sternberg conjured up a section of the Hoboken waterfront in the studio, complete with dirty tramp steamer tied up to the dock, its smoke-filled saloons with their wooden staircases outside leading to the upstairs rooms of the cheap prostitutes, the steaming boiler-room in the ship’s hold with the glistening bodies of the stokers manning the fire-ovens...."

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