Review of The Devil Is a Woman

I'm not too crazy about the storyline. She played Concha Perez, a Spanish woman, who is torn among men. Men fall easily in love with her beauty. Marlene Dietrich does a fantastic job with a weak script. I never bought the film set in Seville, Spain. It's too far fetched with the cast and out of the actors league. Only Cesar Romero fits into his role as one of the possible suitors. Alison Skipworth plays Marlene's character, Concha's mother. Personally, I would have loved to have seen more of Señora Perez. Alison Skipworth was one of the best female character actresses in comedy and drama. This 1935 film is really a great collaboration between Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich in her vehicle. Marlene Dietrich was a star, an original. This film does boast her talents but sadly the film is overshadowed by the weakness of trying to being something and somewhere it doesn't fit right like Spain. If the director and writer had rewritten and revised the setting because the cast like Dietrich, Skipworth, and others don't seem to fit into the scenery, it brings the film down. But still, it's a short film in comparison to today's films and it's just worth watching great actors at play.