The Docks of New York 1928 Watch Free in HD

George Bancroft

30 September 1882, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Betty Compson

Olga Baclanova

19 August 1893, Russia

Clyde Cook

Mitchell Lewis

Gustav von Seyffertitz

4 August 1863, Haimhausen, Dachau, Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]

Richard Alexander

19 November 1902, Dallas, Texas, USA

George Irving

5 October 1874, New York City, New York, USA

John Kelly

29 June 1901, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Guy Oliver

September 25, 1878 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Bob Reeves

28 January 1892, Marlin, Texas, USA

Bill Roberts

Played by: George Bancroft

Mae

Played by: Betty Compson

His Wife - Lou

Played by: Olga Baclanova

'Sugar' Steve

Played by: Clyde Cook

Andy, the Third Engineer

Played by: Mitchell Lewis

New York Times

It fulfills their requirements, somewhat obscure to this reviewer, of rhythm, plasticity and unity. In simpler and more popular terms, it seems to be exceptionally good motion picture entertainment.

October 16, 2007

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TV Guide

The Docks of New York is really a director's and cinematographer's picture if ever there was one and on that account it's nothing less than masterly.

October 16, 2007

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Parallax View

... a turn-of-the-century bowery answer to Sunrise, with a romantic idealism fighting its way out of hard-scrabble lives and resigned characters of the waterfront culture.

September 04, 2010

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Village Voice

In a way lost to contemporary social-work movies, von Sternberg's unsentimental poetic realism ennobles his lower-class protagonists through beauty. Classic.

March 16, 2010

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Combustible Celluloid

In other hands, this could have been a pretty ordinary dimestore romance, but Sternberg gives it depth and, as a result, greatness.

February 20, 2009

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CinePassion

Josef von Sternberg enjoys a challenge, so he pulls into Borzage's waterfront to suppress and heighten emotionalism with sang-froid deadpans.

September 19, 2014

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Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Von Sternberg is a director of situations, not of suspense -- it is his mastery of the subtle eye-line interplay of silent cinema, his command of mise-en-scene and mood, that makes the love between these characters credible.

February 27, 2009

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Variety

It's a corking program picture, thanks to George Bancroft, a good story and Julian Johnson's titles.

October 16, 2007

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Radio Times

The film's romantic fatalism is compelling, and von Sternberg creates some stunning imagery out of his lowlife settings.

September 19, 2014

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Seedy waterfront silent melodrama that sizzles with a smoky atmosphere.

May 24, 2007

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Q Network Film Desk

visually evocative and narratively intriguing, such that even its generally terrible ending can't quite undermine the overall sense that you have just seen something profoundly of its time and ahead of it

August 28, 2010

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Chicago Reader

Sternberg suppresses direct emotional appeal to concentrate on something infinitely fine: a series of minute, discrete moral discoveries and philosophical realignments among his characters.

February 27, 2013

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