62%User score 62 percent
My Brilliant Career
1979 · Drama · Romance
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119 votes
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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CinemaSerf
June 6, 2022
This is a beautiful example of the film-makers craft. Josef von Sternberg and Harold Rosson have created a thing of aesthetic beauty coupled with an interesting - if not especially deep - character study of two people George Bancroft ("Bill") and Betty Compson ("Mae)". The camera loves both of them - and interestingly for the late 1920s, it is not shy in illustrating the beauty of the male physique as well as the bea…
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