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George Marshall
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Don't raise the bridge, lower the river: After his wife leaves him because of his grandiose, get-rich-quick schemes, American George Lester turns her ancestral English estate into a Chinese disco. Forced to raise money to restore the mansion, George enters into a plan with his friend Willy Homer to obtain Middle Eastern financial backing, involving stolen plans for an electronic oil drill.
Hook, line and sinker: Peter Ingersoll is living a humdrum...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1024
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image andf launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona, in his first of many westerns, with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law...