Cafe Metropole - Set in Paris-A 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith, released by 20th Century Fox and starring Loretta Young, Tyrone Power ...

 

This movie can be seen on YouTube 

https://youtu.be/DRhTohaDFTI

Paris in July 2023 -Hosted  by Words and Peace

https://wordsandpeace.com/2023/06/30/paris-in-july-2023/

   There are no real crimes here, though the police are certainly involved. It’s the sort of film where everyone is conning everyone else, sometimes even themselves.

   Monsieur Victor (Adolphe Menjou) owns the Café Metropole and his accountant Maxl (Christain Rub) has just informed him he is in the red and the auditors are coming. He needs to think and act fast, but luckily for Victor things are already falling in place in the person of an American millionaire Joseph Ridgeway (Charles Winninger), his sister Margaret (Helen Westley) and his daughter Laura (Loretta Young) who are arriving soon and hoping to meet celebrities and royalty. If Victor can arrange a royal romance, he might get the money he needs from Winninger.

Cafe Metropole is fun in a low key, all white tie and tails, elegant settings, good food, great wine, beautiful young people in beautiful clothes quoting François Villon in charming cafes and gorgeous suites, and charming con artists.

It is not high art like The Red Shoes, not as exciting as any of the Pimpernel films but it is fun to see how emigre Russians and rich Americans are portrayed. Ok at times it verges into silly.

I will next post on the 1836 film directed by Alexander Korda, The Elusive Pimpernel 

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