Product Details

• Actors: Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian, Ned Sparks, Helen Morgan, Sig Ruman
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Alpha Video
• DVD Release Date: June 22, 2004
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00022LJ88
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,684 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Marie Galante" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Gotham (dba Alpha) Release Date: 06/22/2004

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The gallant Tracy and the Gallic Galante, December 26, 2008

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marie Galante (DVD)

MARIE GALANTE is a 1934 movie with interesting connections to the coming World War. This espionage tale is set in Central America and involves citizens of France, Germany, Britain, Japan and the USA. There's also a plot to sink the American fleet as it passes through the Panama Canal-- an eerie foreshadowing of the Dec. '41 Pearl Harbor attack.

Marie (Gallian) is taken against her will to Mexico by an inebriated sea captain. She works her way down the coast seeking return passage to her native France. At the Canal Zone, Marie takes a singing job and meets an American doctor (Tracy) who's researching tropical diseases. She also becomes acquainted with a British diplomat, a German businessman and his Japanese competitor. Marie learns that the doctor is actually a secret agent trying to foil a plot to destroy the Canal and U.S.N. fleet. (Watch for singer Helen Morgan, who's typecast as a drunken barroom chanteuse.)


ALPHA VIDEO is a provider of vintage movies, serials and TV programs, many of which aren't available elsewhere. Their prices are fair, but so is transfer quality of some of their offerings. None have undergone restoration, yet the market scarcity of their material and an honest price make these DVDs a worthwhile purchase.

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(6.1) Marie Galante (1934) - Spencer Tracy/Ketti Gallian/Ned Sparks/Helen Morgan/Sig Ruman/Leslie Fenton/Arthur Byron/Robert Loraine/Frank Darien (uncredited: Stepin Fetchit/Jay C. Flippen/J. Carrol Naish)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Spencer Tracy in Fox dud, September 18, 2010

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Douglas M - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marie Galante (DVD)

"Marie Galante", released in 1934, was a Fox studio showcase for their bid in the European import stakes, French Ketti Gallian. Directed by the often great Henry King (but not here), the film is a dull thriller about a plot to blow up American ships in the Panama Canal. Populated by a rich array of racial sterotypes, including a Japanese played by the English Leslie Fenton and the offensive Stepin Fetchit playing a man servant, the film is dull and turgid. Spencer Tracy plays a scientist and his acting is so clearly superior to his contemporaries that he stands out like a beacon in spite of the dreary part. Gallian is made up to look like Marlene Dietrich but her command of English is poor and her part absurd. Only the imposition of the censorship could have made this heroine so naive. The highlight of the film are the 2 songs sung by the peerless Helen Morgan.

The film has been in the public domain for a long time. The print is murky, the soundtrack blurred and there are jumps in the continuity due to splicing.