Critical Essay by Geoffrey Wagner
[The] personal theme of The Blue Angel foreshadows an impending social disaster. Sadism was about to be unleashed in mass form in Germany and the film is, of course,...
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Critical Essay by Bosley Crowther
[The Blue Angel is important because it so presciently shows the immaturity and sadism of the German middle class.] In its singular contemplation of the sudden disin...
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Critical Essay by National Board of Review Magazine
The Blue Angel is surely one of the outstanding pictures of this season's screen offerings. Strictly speaking this is a foreign picture. For...
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Critical Essay by Siegfried Kracauer
[The Blue Angel's international success] can be traced to two major reasons, the first of which was decidedly Marlene Dietrich. Her Lola Lola was a new inc...
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey Wagner
