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The Docks of New York
Story of a simple man called Bill who attempts to spare a young lady from suffocating while at the same time working adrift. Bill is a model individual working under the chairmanship of a man named Andy who treats representatives gravely. Bill becomes hopelessly enamored with that young lady and requests that her wed later.
29 June 1901, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4 August 1863, Haimhausen, Dachau, Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]
September 25, 1878 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 November 1902, Dallas, Texas, USA
30 September 1882, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
19 August 1893, Russia
5 October 1874, New York City, New York, USA
28 January 1892, Marlin, Texas, USA
February 27, 2009
Von Sternberg is a director of situations, not of suspense -- it is his mastery of the subtle eye-line interplay of silent cinema, his command of mise-en-scene and mood, that makes the love between these characters credible.
March 16, 2010
In a way lost to contemporary social-work movies, von Sternberg's unsentimental poetic realism ennobles his lower-class protagonists through beauty. Classic.
September 19, 2014
Josef von Sternberg enjoys a challenge, so he pulls into Borzage's waterfront to suppress and heighten emotionalism with sang-froid deadpans.
February 20, 2009
In other hands, this could have been a pretty ordinary dimestore romance, but Sternberg gives it depth and, as a result, greatness.
September 04, 2010
... a turn-of-the-century bowery answer to Sunrise, with a romantic idealism fighting its way out of hard-scrabble lives and resigned characters of the waterfront culture.
February 27, 2013
Sternberg suppresses direct emotional appeal to concentrate on something infinitely fine: a series of minute, discrete moral discoveries and philosophical realignments among his characters.
October 16, 2007
It fulfills their requirements, somewhat obscure to this reviewer, of rhythm, plasticity and unity. In simpler and more popular terms, it seems to be exceptionally good motion picture entertainment.
August 28, 2010
visually evocative and narratively intriguing, such that even its generally terrible ending can't quite undermine the overall sense that you have just seen something profoundly of its time and ahead of it
May 24, 2007
Seedy waterfront silent melodrama that sizzles with a smoky atmosphere.
September 19, 2014
The film's romantic fatalism is compelling, and von Sternberg creates some stunning imagery out of his lowlife settings.
October 16, 2007
The Docks of New York is really a director's and cinematographer's picture if ever there was one and on that account it's nothing less than masterly.
October 16, 2007
It's a corking program picture, thanks to George Bancroft, a good story and Julian Johnson's titles.
