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$14.98 - Golden Earrings [VHS]
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Most Recent Customer ReviewsDate : 2006-11-05
Summary : Golden Earrings
Marlene Dietrich plays the gypsy Lydia, and in her raggedy clothes, black wig, and dark makeup, gives a whole other take on what sexy is all about. (Her gorgeous legs and bare feet get plenty of look-see throughout the picture.) Set near the beginning of WW II in the Black Forest of Germany, Dietrich helps Ray Milland escape the Nazis and obtain a secret poison gas formula. The plot is a bit thin, but both Milland and especially Dietrich put everything into their roles. The golden earrings are a prop used to help disguise Milland, and when he receives them in a box in London after the war, he knows they come from Dietrich who is waiting for him. It's during his flight back to Germany that he relates the story in flashback. Sure enough, after hiking to the spot he had last left her, years before, Dietrich is waiting for him in her gypsy wagon, and off they ride into the sunset. Worth seeing for the enthusiastic acting of the two principal stars.
Date : 2006-07-26
Summary : A Gypsy Song
The film opens on a man (Ray Milland) who is the subject of rumor among other men staying at the same hotel. He recieves a package: a pair of large gold hoop earrings. He smiles, but it is hard to tell whether he is happy or feeling bittersweetly. Then someone finally asks him about the rumors and the story unfolds.
This man is an Englishman working against the Nazis just before the official beginning of WWII. He is almost caught and must reach a contact point for more information. However, with men chasing him, he needs some way to throw them off. He stumbles upon a singing gypsy (Marlene Dietrich) who believes the spirits have sent him to her. She does all she can not only to convert him to her gypsy ways but to also make him fall in love with her.
This film is definitly not heavily influenced by wartime sentiments. It is more of a romance than anything, very lighthearted and sweet.
And how could you not enjoy seeing Dietrich as a pushy gypsy?
Date : 2006-07-17
Summary : Splendid Classic from the Golden Age!
GOLDEN EARRINGS is a superior Dietrich showcase, easily holding its own in the timeless ranks of DESIRE, THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN, and BLONDE VENUS. I agree with an earlier reviewer who asserted that only Dietrich could have successfully carried off the role of a rough-edged Gypsy. In the hands of any lesser actress, Dietrich's vibrant Lydia would have been rendered pure camp. The reported off-screen animosity between Dietrich and Milland lends appreciable spark and heat to their on-screen chemistry, and Lydia's empassioned declaration of love takes its rightful place among the most beautiful and moving romantic moments ever captured on film.GOLDEN EARRINGS also boasts an intriguing gender twist which would never find its way into contemporary macho-laced moviemaking. Dietrich's sexually experienced Lydia relentlessly pursues Milland's chaste and uptight character. She rescues him from peril more than once, and, in the end, when his strongest desire is to make her his life partner, he must leave his own civilized world permanently behind and join her in hers.
Date : 2006-06-08
Summary : One of Marlene's best later outings!
This is a wonderful romance-adventure with plenty of comic touches (we see from "Destry Rides Again" on that Dietrich got much more opportunity to let her talents as a comedienne shine than she ever had under von Stenberg's tutelage, and this is a good example. Not to be missed; the scene where Ray Milland, as the hero Ralph Denistoun, gets a good whiff of Marlene's hair!) She obviously had a lot of fun playing the role of Lydia (learning to play the zither, among other things), and her enthusiasm carries the film. She just can't stay away from the glamorous makeup job, even as a dusky-skinned Gypsy, but her performance is so strong you really don't mind. The ending is just what you would expect and hope for, and it's tear-jerking, but in a happy way. (Ten gets you one if they were remaking it today, they'd completely mess up the ending in the name of - gack - irony.) Marlene gets to help bust up on Nazis - something she, as a dedicated anti-Nazi, doubtless enjoyed very much - as she helps Milland with his secret mission on the eve of World War II. A very sympathetic portrayal of Gypsies; reference is made, in a foreshadowing kind of way, to the horrific fate they would suffer in the Holocaust along with Jews and other "undesirables".
Date : 2001-09-06
Summary : mesmerizing marlene
If anyone else but Marlene Dietrich had played the lead in this film, the film would have been awful! Dietrich triumphs in a role no-one would have predicted. mysterious, mesmerizing, seductive, funny, and finally moving as the loyal gypsy(!) Lyddia, Dietrich makes you overlook the films flaws. At times the film drags by, some supporting players seem to have cotton in their mouths as they speak, and some of the dialogue is inane. Through it all, Dietrich is the soul of this movie, holding it all together in spite of the flaws, to make the whole thing work. Worth watching as a romantic piece of Hollywood escapism, and for seeing Dietrich as the fine actress she is.
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