Morocco is a 1930 film in which a Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a sultry seductress. It stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou. The movie was adapted by Jules Furthman from the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Marlene Dietrich-who, amazingly, knew little English, and spoke her lines phonetically), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Director (Josef von Sternberg).
The movie was notorious in its day for a woman-to-woman kiss. It has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them? Written by Rod Crawford
