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How was The Salvation Hunters different in style from Josef von Sternberg's later films?
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The Salvation Hunters (1925), an evocative portrait of the dockside underclass, was rendered in a documentary style. This approach was quite different from the visual excess and expressionism that characterized Josef von Sternberg's later films.1