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Golden Earrings
A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
Release : | 1947 |
Rating : | 6.6 |
Studio : | Paramount, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Choreographer, |
Cast : | Ray Milland Marlene Dietrich Murvyn Vye Bruce Lester Dennis Hoey |
Genre : | Adventure Romance |
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Waste of time
Nice effects though.
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
This flashback told tale is set up when British officer receives the titled earrings in the mail and lets loose with his story. It was World War II when Milland, on a secret mission in Germany, escaped from a prisoner of war camp and hooked up with lone gypsy Marlene Dietrich who helps him hide so he can complete a secret mission. Horny Dietrich latches on to him like tomato sauce onto spaghetti, pierces his ears and plants dark make-up upon him. Before you know it, Milland is telling Nazi soldiers their fortunes while realizing that finding Dietrich was the best thing that has yet happened to him."His blood will turn to milk and his bones will crumble!" Dietrich tells Milland of a former lover who ran off on her. Yet, he sticks around, determined to complete his mission and helping the Allies beat the Nazis. "Today in Germany, everybody is watched. Even the watchers", the inventor of a gas that the Germans want for destructive purposes and the British want to (allegedly) only keep out of the German's hands.The aging Dietrich, overloaded in dark make-up, overly long eye lashes and an excess of veils, is pure camp as the extremely over affectionate gypsy, with Murvyn Vye as one of her gypsy beaus who initially resents Milland. As silly as he looks in the dark make-up and earrings (like Othello on acid), Milland gives a subtle performance.In spite of being so silly, this is one of those truly enjoyable war films that may not represent any type of reality but is never dull. The title song is one of those odd musical moments in films that just come out of nowhere and makes you wonder if Gene Wilder was off in some distant castle bring a monster back to life.
Golden Earrings (1947)A tough movie to love, but the best parts of it--or the best part, that is, known as Marlene Dietrich--make it easy to like. The actions scenes, the chitchat, even the opening scenes where men talk with bizarre astonishment a man's pierced ears, are often unconvincing. Even the core plot, looking for a key German scientist before it's too late, stumbles over its own clichés. And even worse, a key weakness is the lead male, the low key and unemphatic Ray Milland.Two years after the end of the war, when this film was made, there must have been a huge appetite for variations on stories about resisting the Nazis. This is a bizarre and highly unlikely one, not because Gypsies weren't involved behind the scenes in the action, but because the idea of a single gypsy woman taking in an Englishman who has to hide, for unexplained reasons, in Germany even though there is no war, is a stretch. (His mission is clear, but why an Englishman has to be undercover isn't historically clear to me.)But this is what we have, and Dietrich, who is German and began her acting in Germany but by this point was long part of Hollywood, plays a very fictional Gypsy. She is used a little like she was in the famous Josef von Sternberg movies, for her "aura," which she had plenty of. Most of the movie follows a series of encounters and difficulties with arrogant Nazis and between themselves. Much of the filming is at night, which is dramatic, and there are scenes of Gypsy camps that are part of a long line in Hollywood films. There is also an interesting followup of sorts from Hitchcock's "Notorious" the previous year, in the use of two key German archetypes, Reinhold Schunzel and Ivan Triesault. This is focusing on the details, which is what you have to do. Or just pull back and see a lovely romance unfold.
The film opens in a stuffy British men's club full of gents in leather chairs smoking cigars. This is Denistoun's world. A messenger delivers a small box to him which he opens to find a pair of gold earrings. The site of the earrings sets off a reminiscence about the time he spent in the company of gypsies. The rest of the film is flashback.Golden Earrings has been a long time favorite of mine and is probably the most romantic movie I know. Dietrich plays against her usual type. Here she's dark-haired, earthy and not in the least bit mysterious. Instead of a femme fatale, she'a tower of strength and energetically sets out to use all her resources to help Denistoun survive and reach his goal. To make sure that he's a really convincing gypsy, she pierces his ears and has him wear her dead lover's golden earrings. With his clothes and some grease, she transforms him from an effete British gentleman into a wild and sexy looking man. When I was growing up I used to hear the song "Golden Earrings" which is sung in the film. I think the tune is hummed a little by Dietrich. /There's a story the gypsies know is true /That when your love wears golden earrings /She belongs to you.
The story takes place in rural Germany on the eve of the second world war, a unique setting, with a couple of British agents being held by the Germans in a farm house. Since they aren't technically at war yet, it seems as if both sides must have realized what was coming. Both agents (Bruce Lester and Ray Milland) escape into the countryside and split up. Milland happens upon gypsy woman Marlene Dietrich one evening as she's alone at her camp preparing dinner. Their encounter is an amazing and captivating scene, not so much for Milland but for Dietrich, who takes sexy sultriness to a whole new plane. Milland disguises himself as a gypsy in order to hide from the Germans, but he remains committed to his mission, to do with locating the scientist who knows the formula for a new poison gas but who also isn't a committed Nazi. The Hollywood take on gypsy life and customs is predictably portrayed, but the underlying knowledge that they would be one of the targets for extermination by the Nazis adds a certain tension. The film straddles the line between being a serious story about the poison gas and the urgent search to get the formula, and a colorful though not too convincing love story between Milland and Dietrich. However, they're both very good; it's the fault of the film that didn't give them or their relationship enough dramatic realism, relying on and exploiting obvious cultural differences for questionable comedic purposes. Nonetheless, there are some tense and interesting points here and there, the surprise meetings with German soldiers and Gestapo agents, where Dietrich does a great palm reading and Milland nearly as good faking one, and a dinner party of Germans of various stripes at which the announcement comes over the radio that Germany had been attacked by Poland and everyone stands and does a stiff arm salute. Mitchell Leison may have missed some opportunities here and there, but he fully took advantage of others.