5:00 p.m.	Morocco Josef von Sternberg (U.S., 1930)

With its wildly improbable story, its pre-Code innuendo and insolent stars—Marlene Dietrich as the cabaret performer Amy Jolly and Gary Cooper as the hangdog French Legionnaire she loves—Morocco is a masterpiece of controlled artifice. The surface of a von Sternberg film—sensual, luminous, and tactile—would compete with any other star, but Dietrich took a different route to elegance: she wore the pants. In tuxedo and top hat, hands in pockets, insouciant in stride, she kisses a woman and wins her man. For Dietrich, as for Garbo, wearing men's fashions onscreen and off represented sexual independence, and also freedom from the changing whims of women's fashions. "There's nothing like independence," Amy Jolly says wistfully, well before she famously removes her high heels to follow her man across the desert.

—Judy Bloch

• Written by Jules Furthman, from a play by Benno Vigny. Photographed by Lee Garmes. With Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Francis McDonald. (93 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Universal)

Preceded by short:
Behind the Screen (Charles Chaplin, U.S., 1916). Judith Rosenberg on Piano. A film studio boss catches Chaplin kissing a young stagehand in a cap. (15 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm, From Pacific Film Archive)

• (Total running time: 108 mins)