Golden Earrings (1947) Review

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(More customer reviews)Marlene Dietrich and Ray Milland star in GOLDEN EARRINGS, a story of gypsies and theives, set against the backdrop of Germany in WW2.
Ray Milland stars as Ralph Denistoun, a British spy in Germany, who is arranging to meet a fellow spy in Stuttgart to steal Hitler's formula for poison gas.
Lost in the Black Forest, he meets a bedraggled gypsy woman, whom he dubbs Lydia (Marlene Dietrich). Lydia's knowledge of the Black Forest, and her quick-acting ways are things that will help Ralph on his mission. He decides to disguise himself as a gypsy and travel to Stuttgart with Lydia under the ruse.
Based on the novel by Yolanda Foldes, GOLDEN EARRINGS is an immensely entertaining and very romantic film.
Available seperately or in a box set with SEVEN SINNERS and PITTSBURGH.

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Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (2005) Review

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(More customer reviews)Marlene Dietrich's cool, realistic narration of a disgraceful tale adds a new dimension to the often told details of Hitler's rise and fall. As a German and a contemporary of the Fuhrer's, she is well qualified to tell the story, and her measured tones do a great job of expressing the inexplicable nature of this so-recent piece of history. I appreciated the way she confronted her fellow countrymen's acceptance of this criminal; her references to myth and legend, along with the eerie music, are most atmospheric. The archival video and stills are clear and not cliched.

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BLACK FOX is the story of the most feared and fanatical national leader in all history. His bitter boyhood in Austria. His frustrated ambition to be an artist. His four years of soldiering in the First World War. His ruthlessdrive to power in a defeated Germany. His cold and hot wars of conquest against all of Europe...and against the German people. His death by his own hand in an underground bunker in smoldering Berlin. BLACK FOX is a revealing film story of Adolf Hitler's ambition, his passion, his demonic will, his million-fold murders. The picture is also a study in-depth of those tragic rivers of history which made Hitler's rise possible and which came to confluence in an apocalypse of 50 million dead and a large part of the world in anguish and ruin. Narrated by Marlene Dietrich, this video won the 1962 Academy Award for best Documentary Feature.Based in part on the 12th century folk tale "Reynard the Fox," as adapted by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Music composed and conducted by Ezra Laderman for the New York Chamber Orchestra and The Julliard String Quartet

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