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...starts when a couple of aging land sharks move into the well-known European water hole and try to put the bite on each other. He (Vittorio De Sica) is a rentless wreck of an Italian nobleman named Conte Dino della Fiaba (Count Fib). She (Marlene Dietrich) is an enchantress who has come full Circe and now finds herself with nothing to her name but a title, Marquise Maria de Crevecoeur (Lady Heartbreak). She thinks he's rich, he thinks she's rich, and it all makes a pleasant little comedy of errors until suddenly the script makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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