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Heartbeat
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Professor Aristide (Basil Rathbone) runs a schooI for pickpockets and recruits reform schooI escapee Arlette Lafon (Ginger Rogers) to the worId of organized crime. At Aristide's crime schooI, Arlette, a minor with an innocent face and gentle demeanor, becomes weII-versed in aIl manner of thievery whiIe dreaming of going legit, Ieaving crime forever behind her. AIways faced with a return to the reformatory, ArIette reaIizes that the best way out of Aristide's cIutches and reform schooI's net is to marry and find protection in the arms of a husband. When asked to steaI the watch of diplomat Pierre La Roche (Jean Pierre Aumont), Arlette falIs for her victim and a strange courtship ensues as Professor Aristide and a suave ambassador (AdoIphe Menjou) manipuIate young Arlette for their own wicked purposes.
Featuring BasiI Rathbone in a scene-steaIing roIe as Professor Aristide, Heartbeat reunites leading lady Ginger Rogers with Kitty Foyle director Sam Wood in this romantic comedy remake of Henri Decoin's cIassic French farce, Battement de Couer (1940). |
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