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Josef von Sternberg’s First Talkie Arrives Like a ‘Thunderbolt’
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Josef von Sternberg’s First Talkie Arrives Like a ‘Thunderbolt’

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Michael Barrett
/ 9 August 2021

Is von Sternberg’s Thunderbolt the talkies’ first link between the iconography of the criminal underworld and jazz music?

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