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Red Heels
AUSTRIA · 1925

Red Heels

Michael Curtiz
marriage conflict artistic ambition vs domestic life infidelity and jealousy redemption and reconciliation Parisian nightlife
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Synopsis

A British playboy in Paris marries a dancer and convinces her to give up her career to move to a small cottage in the country. One night at a party given by her former manager, she is persuaded to perform one of the dances she was renowned for. That leads to a fight with her husband, who runs out of the party in the middle of a raging storm. Her subsequent search for him ends up placing her life in danger.

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