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Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Writers:
Frank Butler (writer)
Helen Deutsch (writer)
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Release Date:
27 August 1947 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Romance more
Tagline:
Strange . . . Amazing . . . Their Love Story !
Plot:
On the eve of World War II (1939) English officer Ralph Denistoun is in Nazi Germany on an espionage mission to recover a poison gas formula from Prof... more | add synopsis
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Extremely weak star-vehicle... more (13 total)

Cast

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Ray Milland ... Col. Ralph Denistoun

Marlene Dietrich ... Lydia
Murvyn Vye ... Zoltan
Bruce Lester ... Richard Byrd
Dennis Hoey ... Hoff
Quentin Reynolds ... Himself
Reinhold Schünzel ... Prof. Otto Krosigk
Ivan Triesault ... Maj. Reimann
Hermine Sterler ... Greta Krosigk
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #12068, Adult Audience)
Filming Locations:
Castle, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA more
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the scene with Lydia and the stew pot, dry ice was used to give the impression of vapors and heat. However, a small fire was lit under it, and when filming resumed, between takes Marlene Dietrich assumed there was no real heat and suffered third-degree burns to her hand. She refused to hold up production and instead kept dipping her hand in the pot that had been refilled with ice water. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the climax where Lydia is escaping though the wilderness from the Nazis, in some shots she is seen wearing high heels and at other times appears in bare feet. more
Soundtrack:
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3 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Extremely weak star-vehicle..., 1 April 2008
4/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Silly comedy casts an embarrassed-seeming Ray Milland as a British officer in World War II Europe escaping German confines and taking up with a man-hungry gypsy woman, played by Marlene Dietrich. Slowly-paced, overlong, and miscast: the leads are far too old for this type of juvenile fodder, although Marlene shines in her solo moments. It took three scriptwriters to adapt Yolanda Foldes' book for the screen, but this material must have already seemed dated by 1947--it smacks of something Ernst Lubitsch might have turned out in 1939. The scenario is musty, and the stars have absolutely no chemistry together. ** from ****

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