Golden Earrings

This absurd clunker is so bad that it became a camp classic overnight, even in an era when camp was unknown. Dietrich is at her most outlandish as a fierce gypsy whose sanitary habits would repel a mongoose, and the cultured Milland is bewildered by it all; that is, when he is not sneering his disgust at Dietrich and the incompetent script. This impossible tale begins just after WW II when Milland, a British major general, receives a box at his London hotel; it contains a pair of simple golden earrings. On a plane bound for Paris, Milland relates his strange story to foreign correspondent Reynolds. Six years earlier, before England was involved in WW II, Milland an...