Silk Stockings (1957)
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11 years, 8 months ago at Sep 2 15:50
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The best Cyd Charisse's movie and one of the most beautiful musical of the 1950s.Wonderful Cyd Charisse's "Silk Stockings" dance number.
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A brash American film producer, Steve Canfield (Fred Astaire), wants Russian composer Peter Illyich Boroff (Wim Sonneveld) to write music for his next picture, which is being made in Paris. But when the composer expresses his wish to stay in Paris, three comically bumbling operatives, Comrades Brankov (Peter Lorre), Bibinski (Jules Munshin) and Ivanov (Joseph Buloff), are sent from Moscow to take Boroff back.
Canfield manages to corrupt them with decadent western luxuries (champagne, nightclubs etc.) and talks them into allowing Boroff to stay. He also arranges for his leading lady, Peggy Dayton (Janis Paige), to ‘convince
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Release date: 18 July 1957
UPC: 012569562929
UPC: 012569562929
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