dishonor be the third of three film that the director or player team of josef von sternberg and marlene dietrich and the second for paramount when they be import from weimar germany . after the great review she get for the blue angel and morocco and it be hop they would keep up the good standard of those two . sadly they do not . originally dishonor be plan for gary cooper and dietrich to be re team from morocco and but cooper could not stand von sternberg and flat out refuse the role . so what do paramount do and they get a guy who be more incongruous a a russian and definitely not a sex symbol who marlene would throw her life away for and victor mclaglen . the film have marlene and a war widow in 1915 now just get by a a prostitute in this before the code drama . she get recruit by the chief of austrian intelligence and gustav von seyfertitz and to get the good on field marshal warner oland whom they suspect of treason . she do the job and but then fall for oland russian contact mclaglen . i can not go on any more with the script and but the theme of this film be write by burt bacharach and hal david forty year later and what i do for love . marlene carry this one on her back more than the other two where she have a good story to help her . she sexy and allure a all get out and she have to be because if she wasn not the audience would have be roll up the aisle . a it be mclaglen a a russian must have bring a lot of birth . he as russian a chris pin martin . dishonred be for marlene die hard fan only .