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Bookmark this pageManpower (1941)
Director: Raoul Walsh
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From Time Out Film Guide
An overheated, noir-ish melodrama about a sexual triangle: stolid power-line worker Robinson has plucked Marlene Dietrich from a dance-hall dive and married her, but his sexier fellow-worker Raft fools around with her. The conflict naturally comes to a head on the power lines during a thunderstorm. This is the only American movie that doesn't label Dietrich as a foreigner, but its overall 'Frailty, thy name is woman' tone preserves her status as an object to be feared.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Hal Wallis
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Edward G Robinson, George Raft, Alan Hale, Walter Catlett, Eve Arden, Frank McHugh, Barton MacLane, Ward Bond full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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