Jon Mirsalis on Piano This "glowing and romanticized creation of a wholly mythological and delightful New York waterfront" (James Card), a tale of marriage and murder among sailors and hookers, was released about the same time as The Jazz Singer and was quickly relegated to an undeserved obscurity. The Docks of New York is considered by film historian Kevin Brownlow, in The Parade's Gone By, to be the greatest film Sternberg ever made. "He achieves a feeling of warmth and humanity-he seems to care about his characters, instead of using them, as in some of his sound films, merely to form patterns of light and shade. Docks of New York looks like a massed collaboration of the finest European and American directors, art directors and lighting cameramen."