Desire Movie Review 1936

Jewel thief Madeleine (Dietrich) manages to involve innocent tourist Tom (Cooper) into carrying her ill-gotten goods across the Spanish border. Then she entices him into joining her at the country estate of her partner-in-crime. By this time Tom is in love--and so is Madeleine but she doesn't think she's good enough for him. Lots of lying until the twosome can figure out what to do. Cooper manages to hold his own with the sophisticated Dietrich in their second film together (after "Morocco").

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Available on VHS
Running time 96 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Spain

Screenplay

Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young

Cast

Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Ernest Cossart, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray

Director

Frank Borzage

Music

Frederick "Friedrich" Hollander

Producer

Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount Pictures