Journal of Film Preservation, October 1st, 2001
Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film, Morocco, was and is a clear reflection of the appeal to Western audiences of ersatz exoticism, a curiosity about the heightened state-of-being allegedly found in the tropics. This had been a Hollywood staple throughout the silent era, as witnessed by Ramon Navarro as The Arab, Ronald Colman as Beau Geste, Browning's Under Two Flags, and Hawk's Fazil. The genre perhaps reached its apex in the popularity of the Rudolph Valentino adventures, The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik.
Even before movies, however, Westerners had marveled at the deserttravel journals of Si...
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