Angel

"The Lubitsch Touch" barely fondles this sophisticated melodrama which profiles Dietrich as the bored wife of a British nobleman, Marshall, who has neglected if not ignored her for quite some time. She angrily goes off to Paris, without informing her husband, to see an old friend, Crews, an expatriate Russian duchess running a posh bordello. Douglas, an American visiting Paris, meets Dietrich and plies her with attention to which she happily responds, agreeing to have dinner with him. The two then make the rounds of Paris sites and monuments, but when Dietrich thinks Douglas is getting serious, she disappears, returning to England and Marshall, who has hardly notic...