96 mins |
Rated
G
Directed by Frank Borzage
Starring Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, William Frawley, John Halliday, Akim Tamiroff
Playing as party our Retro Boutique Cinema's Marlene Dietrich Director Collaboration series, playing all through May.
With DESIRE, Dietrich teams up with director Frank Borzage (A FAREWELL TO ARMS, THE MORTAL STORM).
When jewel thief Madeleine (Dietrich) leaves Paris with a string of pearls, she conspires to smuggle them across the Spanish border with the unwitting assistance of American mechanic Tom (Gary Cooper). But retrieving the jewels turns out to be harder than she thinks, and she finds herself falling for Tom.
Reuniting the leads of Josef von Sternberg’s smash hit MOROCCO, and co-produced by the great Ernst Lubitsch, Desire was acclaimed by author Graham Greene as the best of Dietrich’s American films.
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Playing as party our Retro Boutique Cinema's Marlene Dietrich Director Collaboration series, playing all through May.
With DESIRE, Dietrich teams up with director Frank Borzage (A FAREWELL TO ARMS, THE MORTAL STORM).
When jewel thief Madeleine (Dietrich) leaves Paris with a string of pearls, she conspires to smuggle them across the Spanish border with the unwitting assistance of American mechanic Tom (Gary Cooper). But retrieving the jewels turns out to be harder than she thinks, and she finds herself falling for Tom.
Reuniting the leads of Josef von Sternberg’s smash hit MOROCCO, and co-produced by the great Ernst Lubitsch, Desire was acclaimed by author Graham Greene as the best of Dietrich’s American films.