those reviewer who have complain that this movie lack plausibility or have problem of construction be miss the point . this be a wonderfully camp romance and with plenty of play and gypsy . dance and gypsy . music and that both send up exotic love story and celebrate them . button up ray milland make an amusing foil for a dietrich with black hair and tattered scarf and and ton of jewelry . the character eagerness to fee milland and look after him more closely resemble the good german hausfrau dietrich be off the set than her mannered vamp role . censorship be in force and it make clear that they share a caravan on platonic term only and with milland fight off dietrich advance with a determination remarkable for a heterosexual bachelor who might be kill any day . his only excuse be that she smell and so perhaps a stuffy and fastidious englishman might indeed be put off . in the small role of milland young companion on his secret mission and bruce lester add a note of camp of a different kind . we be tell at the beginning that he hero worship milland and and indeed he rather fawn on him . when and after they be separated and he meet milland and now transform into a brown skinned gypsy with a shirt open to the waist and his glow appreciation of the disguise even far suggest that not only dietrich be romantically infatuate with milland . despite the wonderfully improbable character and sequence of event and the grow love of milland for dietrich and his acceptance of the non rational aspect of life be rather touch . and when and on their last night alone before he escape and he say that each of them now contain half of the other and the two have become one and and then darkness fall and i think we can assume that the censor decide to give them a break . one goof at the beginning and milland and who be suppose to be english and refers to a lieutenant and use the american pronunciation . ( the english say leftenant . ) since milland be british and he must have be say it that way because the american movie maker fear that american audience would be distract and confuse by the british style .