IMDb plot summary: A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
Directed by Hobart Henley. Starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, and Frank Lyon.
The Big Pond stars Maurice Chevalier as a poor man who falls in love with a wealthy man's daughter and sets out to become a successful businessman in the hopes of proving to her father that he can support her, but along the way he may lose all the things that made her love in to begin with. This is a pretty middle-of-the-road film I watched as part of my 1930 project. It's always fun to see Chevalier in his heyday, and there are some fun song-and-dance numbers in this film, but a lot of it meanders, and the romance gets lost to us just as much as it does to the female lead. And frankly it's hard to come up with much more to say about it -- it's okay, but there's not much to recommend it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Big Pond < Dazed and Confused
The Big Pond > Kicking & Screaming (2005)
The Big Pond < John Dies at the End
The Big Pond < Milk
The Big Pond > The Amazing Spider-Man
The Big Pond < Earth
The Big Pond < The Accidental Tourist
The Big Pond > Destry Rides Again
The Big Pond > The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
The Big Pond < Lovelace
The Big Pond > Without a Clue
Final spot: #2685 out of 3770, or 29%.
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