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Plot

A remake of the 1939 French film Battement de Couer, Heartbeat reunites star Ginger Rogers with her Kitty Foyle director Sam Wood. Ms. Rogers plays Arlette, a reform school alumnus who is recruited by Faginlike Professor Aristide, headmaster at a school for pickpockets. Before long, Arlette becomes Aristide's prize pupil, and is being groomed for bigger things. Assigned by a corrupt foreign ambassador (Adolphe Menjou) to steal a valuable watch from wealthy and handsome diplomat Pierre (Jean Pierre Aumont), Arlette not only bungles the job, but also falls in love with her would-be victim. Heartbeat wasn't the first mediocre American remake of a French film, and it certainly wouldn't be the last.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Crime and Mystery,Romance,Thriller
Run Time:
100min.
DVD Release Date:
11/23/2004
Distributor(s):
RKO Radio Pictures
Director(s):
Sam Wood
Starring:
Ginger Rogers , Jean-Pierre Aumont , Adolphe Menjou , Melville Cooper , Basil Rathbone
Themes:
Nothing Goes Right,Unlikely Criminals,Jewel Theft
Tone:
Bright,Easygoing,Humorous,Light
Keywords:
ballroom,casting,dance [art],diplomat,forbidden-love,love,pickpocket,romance,school,victim,woods [place]