Desire

Desire

7.0IMDb Score
Released:1936-04-11
Duration:95 min
Director:Frank Borzage
Actors:Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Ernest Cossart
Production:Paramount Pictures

Overview:

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

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