Desire / a Paramount Picture ; Adolph Zukor presents ; a Frank Borzage production ; directed by Frank Borzage ; produced by Ernst Lubitsch ; screen play by Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young and Samuel Hoffenstein.
Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Ernest Cossart, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray. Based on the play Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez by Hans Székely and Robert A. Stemmle. Title and credits from screen. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936.
Summary:
In the most elaborate jewel heist in European history, the beautiful and conniving "Countess" Madeline embezzles a small fortune of pearls. As she makes her getaway to Spain to deliver the hot goods, her escape is thwarted by car trouble, until a handsome and likable young tourist helps her out. She shows her gratitude by leaving the unsuspecting good Samaritan in the dust, literally! When he accidentally ends up with the pearls, she must feign romantic interest to get them back. The charade soon turns into the real thing, however, and Madeline realizes that her only hope of happiness is to clean up her act, no matter what the cost, or lose the man she loves.
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