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Title: 5-star film;1-star quality!
Review: Boy, that other reviewer was right about the lousy production quality of this movie. It's such a marvelous film. Charles Boyer does a fantastic job as the master criminal who possesses panache, intelligence, and a desperate need to escape the casbah that is both refuge and prison. Hedy Lamarr is luminous. Such a classic movie deserves restoration, and those of us who love good movies enough to purchase DVDs deserve better than this. Okay, I'm used to the faded, grainy, jumpy aspect of the typical AlphaVideo DVD, and am willing to put up with it just to have this film. But the sudden intrusion of another movie's dialogue -- including a man screaming -- right in the middle of the story line is inexcusable. I nearly came out of my chair in startlement. At times you can barely hear Pepe le Moko's dialogue for this other, loud overdub. If this is the only copy of this film you can find, it's still worth having, but be prepared for a really stupid production mistake.
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