Marvellous, old-fashioned romantic adventure
Golden Earrings review
By
Savage from London, England
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17th December 2008
With its tongue firmly in its cheek, this posits Ray Milland as a British agent trying to get a formula for nerve gas from a sympathetic German scientist just before the outbreak of the second world war. Fleeing beastly Nazis, he goes undercover, which is where the thing really goes mad, because he runs into Marlene Dietrich as a Gypsy who can't keep her hands off him (literally), and who decides she must help him no matter what. This involves turning Milland in a Gypsy (not very convincingly - but then conviction isn't something this film has very much of) and getting up to all-sorts, including a massive fight with her ex-brother-in-law. Crackingly directed by the always under-rated Mitchell Leisen, it moves at a great clip, and the transfer is pin-sharp and clean. It's a silly film, but great fun.
