IMDb plot summary: In Paris, a young woman runs away from a reform school, joins a pickpocket academy, and finds herself falling for the handsome diplomat she's been blackmailed into stealing from.
Directed by Sam Wood. Starring Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou, and Melville Cooper.
The first third of this movie is infinitely more interesting than the final two. Ginger Rogers taking pickpocketing lessons from Basil Rathbone is so much more exciting than the bland romance that takes up the rest of the story. Once she leaves thievery school, we land on a fairly tedious romance with a weird amount of middle-aged men who all look the same making decisions about her life? Good beginning, mediocre middle and ending.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Heartbeat < Bolt
Heartbeat > Live-In Maid
Heartbeat < Twist of Faith
Heartbeat > Thank You for Smoking
Heartbeat < Where the Red Fern Grows
Heartbeat > Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Heartbeat < The Lost Skeleton Returns Again
Heartbeat > Apocalypto
Heartbeat > Gladiator
Heartbeat > Elizabethtown
Heartbeat > What Women Want
Heartbeat > Bunraku
Final spot: #2053 out of 3092.
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