The Barefoot Contessa

Original title: The Barefoot Contessa

128 minutes • 1954 • 6.8 Score

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Director