Making a film that details the violence – specifically, the sexual violence – that colonialism wrought in places like Tasmania in the early 19th century is an honorable endeavor that also makes for a very difficult viewing experience. Adam and Josh find lots to admire in Kent's THE NIGHTINGALE, but question whether the director's decision to make the film so explicit makes it a better one. That review, plus Dietrich in drag and some tough notes for a young Gary Cooper in 1930's MOROCCO, the second film in the Marlene Dietrich/Joseph von Sternberg Marathon.

0:00 - Billboard

1:04 - Review: "The Nightingale"

Marlene Dietrich, "When Love Dies"

33:40 - Next Week / Notes

41:59 - Massacre Theatre

50:01 - Dietrich/Von Sternberg Marathon #2

1:17:41 - Close

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