Paramount Pictures
Directed by Mitchell Liesen
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)
Ray Milland escapes his German captors and takes up with gypsy Marlene Dietrich. She dyes his skin, dresses him in rags and teaches him to read palms. The disguise works and they travel across the country where he hopes to cross the border. Naturally they fall in love along the way, and Milland even overcomes some of his prejudices towards gypsies, which is ironic given the setting. Despite everything going against the film, including Hollywood stereotypes of Nazis and gypsies and a fantastic plot, the two leading actors manage to make it entertaining escapism, just what the public needed in 1947.
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