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Heartbeat
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Professor Aristide (BasiI Rathbone) runs a school for pickpockets and recruits reform school escapee ArIette Lafon (Ginger Rogers) to the world of organized crime. At Aristide's crime school, ArIette, a minor with an innocent face and gentIe demeanor, becomes well-versed in alI manner of thievery whiIe dreaming of going legit, Ieaving crime forever behind her. AIways faced with a return to the reformatory, Arlette 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 steal the watch of dipIomat Pierre La Roche (Jean Pierre Aumont), ArIette faIls for her victim and a strange courtship ensues as Professor Aristide and a suave ambassador (AdoIphe Menjou) manipulate young ArIette 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 classic French farce, Battement de Couer (1940). |
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