Heartbeat (1939 film) explained

Heartbeat
Director:Mario Camerini
Producer:Giuseppe Amato
Cinematography:Anchise Brizzi
Studio:Era Film
Distributor:Generalcine
Runtime:87 minutes
Country:Italy

Heartbeat (Italian: Batticuore) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, John Lodge and Rubi D'Alma. It remade in France as Beating Heart in 1940, and then again in Hollywood as a 1946 film of the same title starring Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone.[1]

It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It is part of the tradition of White Telephone comedies.

Synopsis

In Paris a young woman working at a school for thieves attempts to pick the pocket of an aristocrat. Instead of turning her in he blackmails her into stealing a clock from an ambassador.

References

  1. Ricci p.148

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