Sirocco | |
---|---|
Directed by | Curtis Bernhardt |
Produced by | Robert Lord |
Screenplay by | A.I. Bezzerides Hans Jacoby |
Based on | Coup de Grace 1936 novel by Joseph Kessel |
Starring | Humphrey Bogart |
Music by | George Antheil |
Cinematography | Burnett Guffey |
Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | |
Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.3 million (US rentals)[1] |
SIROCCO is a 154ft luxury motor super yacht available for charter built in 2006, refitted in 2013. Charter up to 12 guests in 6 cabins (1 Master, 1 VIP, 5 Double & 1 Twin) with a crew of 9. A photographer and her lover travel to Morocco for photo shoots. While traveling there she has erotic adventures with residents of the area. But she ends up having an affair with someone who ends up betraying her and she murders the man.
Sirocco is a 1951 American film noir directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Humphrey Bogart.[2]
The film name is derived from Sirocco, the strong wind which blows across the Sahara desert, but is set in Syria.
Plot[edit]
In 1925 Damascus, the native Syrians are engaged in a guerrilla war against the French colonial rule of Syria.
Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) is an amoral American black marketeer, secretly selling weapons to the guerillas. As the situation deteriorates, French General LaSalle (Everett Sloane) orders that civilian sympathisers shall be executed each time his soldiers are killed, but his head of military intelligence, Colonel Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), persuades him to alter the plan, and simply detain sympathisers for 48 hours. Col. Feroud calls in five of the city's profiteers (including Smith and Balukjiaan) and accuses them of selling food at excessive prices. Smith is the only one who appears to be willing to cooperate. After he leaves they investigate Smith and find he was a war hero in the First World War.
A bomb goes off in a night club where Smith has been eying Violetta (Märta Torén) whilst drinking with his barber friend Nasir (Nick Dennis). Violetta is thrown to the floor. Col Feroud picks her up but it is Smith who comforts her. Valetta leaves with Feroud and returns to his apartment: it becomes clear that they are lovers.
Feroud presses for negotiations with rebel leader Emir Hassan (Onslow Stevens). LaSalle reluctantly lets him try to arrange a meeting, but refuses to let Feroud make contact directly. A young military officer sent in his place is later found murdered with his throat cut.
Feroud calls in Balukjiaan (Zero Mostel) and accuses him of being a gun-runner. He protests his innocence and suggests Smith instead.
To complicate matters, Harry makes a pass at Feroud's unhappy mistress, Violetta , but she rejects him. Later, she informs Feroud she wants to leave him, but he refuses to let her
Harry discovers that Nasir has given his name to the authorities when pressured, and plans his escape. At the same time Violetta shows up and begs him to take her back to Cairo. Needing to flee himself, he agrees to take her along. However, a French patrol nearly captures Harry. He barely gets away, but has to leave behind his money, and without that, he is soon betrayed to the French.
Facing execution, Harry agrees to help Feroud meet with Hassan. Hassan calls the colonel a fool and dismisses his plea for negotiations, but decides to spare his life when Harry and Feroud's aide Major Leon (Gerald Mohr) show up offering a £10,000 ransom. The officers are allowed to leave; Harry is not so lucky. The rebels are angered that he has revealed the location of their headquarters to the French and fear he has sold them out, so they kill him. As Feroud and Leon walk back, they notice that the incessant gunfire and explosions have stopped. Feroud wonders aloud if he has convinced Hassan to be as big a fool.
Cast[edit]
- Humphrey Bogart as Harry Smith
- Märta Torén as Violetta
- Lee J. Cobb as Col. Feroud
- Everett Sloane as Gen. LaSalle
- Gerald Mohr as Major Leon
- Zero Mostel as Balukjiaan
- Nick Dennis as Nasir Aboud, Harry's assistant
- Onslow Stevens as Emir Hassan
- Ludwig Donath as Flophouse proprietor
- David Bond as Achmet
Critical reception[edit]
Film critic Bosley Crowther lambasted the film and wrote, 'Except for a few moody moments in a plaster night-club, called the Moulin Rouge, and some shadowy shots of sloppy Syrians lying around in dingy catacombs, the scene is no more suggestive of Damascus than a Shriners' convention in New Orleans, on which occasion you would see more fezzes than ever show up in this film. For the most part—indeed, for the sole part—Sirocco wafts a torpid tale of a slick, sneering gun-runner proving a painful thorn in a nice French colonel's side.'[3]
Welcome to 8DIO Natural Acoustic Series – a studio collection of high-end deep-sampled acoustic instruments. The 8Dio Instant 12-String Guitar library contains two different libraries, including our 12-String Guitar Solo and 12-String Guitar Strummer. 8Dio Instant 12-String Guitar Solo VST is a passionate, deep-sampled (+2.660 samples) pristine sounding 12-stringed guitar. The giant kontakt library crack torrent.
Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film a mixed review, writing, 'I’d always read that it was a half-baked attempt to rekindle some of the ingredients that made Casablanca such a success, and that’s true. The setting is Damascus in 1926, when the French Army is battling Syrian insurgents..Sirocco is strictly formula stuff, but it’s a perfect example of how Hollywood could take ordinary material and still make it entertaining, through sheer professional polish in the writing, staging, art direction, and casting. Zero Mostel, Gerald Mohr, and Nick Dennis head the colorful supporting cast, who perform well under Curtis Bernhardt’s direction.'[4]
References[edit]
- ^'The Top Box Office Hits of 1951', Variety, January 2, 1952
- ^Sirocco on IMDb
- ^Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, June 14, 1951. Last accessed: January 23, 2008.
- ^Maltin, LeonardArchived 2008-10-02 at the Wayback Machine. Leonard Maltin Movie Crazy film reviews, 2008. Last accessed: January 23, 2008.
External links[edit]
- Sirocco on IMDb
- Sirocco at AllMovie
- Sirocco at the TCM Movie Database
- Sirocco film trailer on YouTube
- Released 2018, April 23
177g, 7.5mm thickness
Android 8.0, up to Android 10, Android One
128GB storage, no card slot - 1.3%2,530,536 hits
- 5.5'1440x2560 pixels
- 12MP
- 6GB RAMSnapdragon 835
- 3260mAh
Network | Technology | GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE |
---|---|---|
2G bands | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 (dual-SIM model only) | |
CDMA 800 & TD-SCDMA | ||
3G bands | HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 | |
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO | ||
4G bands | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 20, 28, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41 | |
Speed | HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (3CA) Cat12 600/150 Mbps |
Launch | Announced | 2018, February 25 |
---|---|---|
Status | Available. Released 2018, April 23 |
Body | Dimensions | 140.9 x 73 x 7.5 mm (5.55 x 2.87 x 0.30 in) |
---|---|---|
Weight | 177 g (6.24 oz) | |
Build | Glass front (Gorilla Glass 5), glass back (Gorilla Glass 5), stainless steel frame | |
SIM | Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) | |
IP67 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins) |
Display | Type | P-OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
---|---|---|
Size | 5.5 inches, 83.4 cm2 (~81.1% screen-to-body ratio) | |
Resolution | 1440 x 2560 pixels, 16:9 ratio (~534 ppi density) | |
Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 | |
Always-on display |
Platform | OS | Android 8.0 (Oreo), upgradable to Android 10, Android One |
---|---|---|
Chipset | Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 (10 nm) | |
CPU | Octa-core (4x2.5 GHz Kryo & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo) | |
GPU | Adreno 540 |
Memory | Card slot | No |
---|---|---|
Internal | 128GB 6GB RAM |
Main Camera | Dual | 12 MP, f/1.8, 25mm (wide), 1/2.55', 1.4µm, dual pixel PDAF 13 MP, f/2.6, 1/3.4', 1.0µm, 2x optical zoom, AF |
---|---|---|
Features | Zeiss optics, dual-LED dual-tone flash, panorama, HDR | |
Video | 2160p@30fps, 1080p@30fps |
Selfie camera | Single | 5 MP, f/2.0, 1/4', 1.4µm |
---|---|---|
Video | 1080p@30fps |
Sound | Loudspeaker | Yes |
---|---|---|
3.5mm jack | No | |
24-bit/192kHz audio |
Comms | WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
---|---|---|
Bluetooth | 5.0, A2DP, LE | |
GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS | |
NFC | Yes | |
Radio | No | |
USB | 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector |
Features | Sensors | Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer |
---|
Battery | Non-removable Li-Ion 3260 mAh battery |
---|---|
Charging | Fast charging 18W Quick Charge 4 Qi wireless charging |
Stand-by | Up to 495 h (3G) |
Talk time | Up to 22 h (3G) |
Music play | Up to 11 h |
Misc | Colors | Black |
---|---|---|
Models | TA-1005 | |
SAR EU | 0.59 W/kg (head) 1.54 W/kg (body) | |
Price | $ 545.00 / £ 550.00 / ₹ 54,999 |
Tests | Performance | AnTuTu: 209577 (v7) GeekBench: 6725 (v4.4) GFXBench: 15fps (ES 3.1 onscreen) |
---|---|---|
Display | Contrast ratio: Infinite (nominal), 3.745 (sunlight) | |
Camera | Photo / Video | |
Loudspeaker | Voice 83dB / Noise 76dB / Ring 80dB | |
Audio quality | Noise -90.1dB / Crosstalk -88.7dB | |
Battery life |
Disclaimer. We can not guarantee that the information on this page is 100% correct. Read more
128GB 6GB RAM | £ 550.00 | £ 779.00 |
Nokia 8 Sirocco - user opinions and reviews
- gM}
I own both Nokia 7 Plus & Nokia 6.1. Pretty happy with them so far. After Android 10 update both phones have improved a lot in performance and overall feel of the software. As you may be knowing almost all models from Nokia's 2018 lineup has been..
- WindomEarle
- S4u
Fixed the bluetooth issue, thanks to this https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/58000/bluetooth-pairing-is-not-working-after-the-android10-update#latest The rest is still waiting for a solution. WiFi seems to be the most pressing i..
- Anonymous
- 7kj
1) Upgrade your Google Camera OR re-install it. 2) Agree the screen blackens after fingerprint sensor, but once in a while. Surely Nokia will fix this bug. 3) WiFi is working fine. 4) Bluetooth works fine, it could be a specific issue with y..