Word: sternberger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pathos of the story is gripping enough even in the recent (1959) Mai Britt remake, but in the Dietrich original Joseph von Sternberg's directing enhances the impact with a telling use of symbolism and heavy reliance on he camera as narrator...
From tax cheating Gibney moves on to the kickback artists in business, the most spectacular among them being unquestionably a New York dress buyer named Stanley Sternberg, who worked for a branch of Sears, Roebuck. When he was shown the door in 1952, it appeared that manufacturers who wanted him to place orders with them, in addition to making regular payments, had fed him daily, clothed him and his family, partly furnished his home. One manufacturer was assigned to take Sternberg's aged parents to dinner almost nightly; the wife of another was pressed into service to supply...