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Rating: 7.5 stars

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All movies seen on 01/16/2013

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Desire (1936)

Directed by Frank Borzage

Romance | Comedy | Crime

Overview

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

Rated NR | Length 95 minutes

Actors

Marlene Dietrich | Gary Cooper | John Halliday | William Frawley | Ernest Cossart | Akim Tamiroff | Alan Mowbray | Zeffie Tilbury | George MacQuarrie | Robert Emmett O'Connor | George Davis | Enrique Acosta | Stanley Andrews | Harry Antrim | Rafael Blanco | Alden 'Stephen' Chase | Blanche Craig | Anna De Linsky | Harry Depp | Oliver Eckhardt | Constant Franke | Gaston Glass | Armand Kaliz | Isabel La Mal | Marc Lawrence | Rollo Lloyd | Tony Merlo | Bob O'Connor | Alfonso Pedroza | Albert Pollet

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Was glad I made the effort to hit this week’s NWCFS screening despite being super exhausted from a long day at the office. DESIRE is not available on home video and that’s a travesty because this is a terrific film. Plenty of laughs and chemistry between the leads. Dietrich is typically mesmerizing and Cooper plays a good ham. Haven’t laughed out loud that much during a screening in a long time. Such a hoot. Absolutely will be on my discoveries list for 2013.

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