HEARTBEAT
(RKO-Radio)
] DOUBT if I'll be a lone voice when I say that nothing about this film caused my heart to beat any faster. It is a Hollywood remake of a
French comedy (Battement de Cceur), but the only things French about it are the allegedly Parisian settings and the leading man (Jean Pierre Aumont). The opening situation, in which Basil Rathbone conducts a school for professional pickpockets, is promising, but from then on the story develops- or rather, de-generates-into a Cinderella-esque affair designed. to exploit the personality of Ginger Rogers. She goes to the Ambassador’s ball, commissioned by Adolphe Menjou to pick the pockets of a dashing young diplomat, but steals his heart as well as his watch; thereafter this tale of petty larceny and amorous intrigue gropes its way through routine situations to a predestined conclusion. Mikhail Basumny and Melville Cooper, as @ couple of likeable rogues, do their best to enliven proceedings; but to be really successful such a film as this demands a great deal of subtlety and lightness of approach. Heartbeat has about as much subtlety and lightness of approach as a herd of wild elephants.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 17
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190HEARTBEAT New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 17
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