doesn’t quite have the impact and dramatic cohesion of some of Pabst’s later films, it has a great deal to commend it. There’s Helm’s commanding performance of a woman visibly tortured by her ferocious sexual urge, a set piece scene in a night club which conveys the decadence and moral decay of German society in the late 1920s, and some exquisitely beautiful photography which is subtly influenced by the expressionistic style. That the film is far less well known than Pabst’s other work is … Jazzy Jay born 1961 was pioneering DJ, who helped Rick Rubin lay the foundation for what would become Def Jam Recordings.