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      Heartbeat

      Released May 10, 1946 1h 42m Romance Comedy List
      Reviews 36% Audience Score 50+ Ratings In Paris, a troubled but charming young runaway, Arlette Lafron (Ginger Rogers), trains as a pickpocket under the tutelage of Professor Aristide (Basil Rathbone), who runs an academy for street thieves. On her first assignment, Arlette is caught attempting to lift a tie pin from an ambassador (Adolphe Menjou), who blackmails her into stealing an expensive watch from a handsome diplomat, Pierre de Roche (Jean-Pierre Aumont). However, complications arise when she begins to fall for her target. Read More Read Less

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      Roger Moore Movie Nation Every scene that doesn't have Rathbone booming instructions, scolding his student pickpockets or collecting their "collections" at day's end is an opportunity lost. Rated: 2/4 Mar 2, 2022 Full Review Aurelio Pego Cine-Mundial A delicious and ingenious comedy. [Full Review in Spanish] Sep 9, 2019 Full Review Josephine O'Neill Daily Telegraph (Australia) Heartbeat is more beguiling than it deserves. Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews An unfunny remake of the 1939 French film Battement de Couer. Rated: C+ Aug 15, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Steve D Really different for Ginger and quite fun. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Ginger Rogers plays the young Arlette with charm in a scheme-filled Hays-Era romance comedy. Basil Rathbone has a fun turn as a professor of pick-pocketing, with Jean-Pierre Aumont starring as Arlette's love-interest, Pierre de Roche. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A very excellent, comical performance by Ginger Rogers in this movie. I particularly like the plot in this movie; its like an unusual, unique comedy version of the classic story portrayed in so many movies of a character gradually descending deeper into crime. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review kevin w Basil Rathbone runs a school where he teaches Pickpocketing: For Fun And Profit. Ginger plays a young woman who contemplates that lifestyle until she is caught (Adolphe Menjou), and then coerced into "doing a job" for him to see if his errant wife is cheating. Jean-Pierre Aumont is the unsuspecting mark who falls for her. There are many things, you see, going on in this film. None of them successfully garner your interest though. There's just too many irons in the fire. Put this down to a great might-have-been. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member The movie has some life when the character of Professor Aristide is around (mostly at the beginning, but then quickly fades. Even Ginger Rogers isn't enough to keep this movie interesting, and is even miscast in her role. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member the story was rather unique thou its too fairy tale still. but overall it's always lovely to see ginger rogers on screen isnt it? :) Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis In Paris, a troubled but charming young runaway, Arlette Lafron (Ginger Rogers), trains as a pickpocket under the tutelage of Professor Aristide (Basil Rathbone), who runs an academy for street thieves. On her first assignment, Arlette is caught attempting to lift a tie pin from an ambassador (Adolphe Menjou), who blackmails her into stealing an expensive watch from a handsome diplomat, Pierre de Roche (Jean-Pierre Aumont). However, complications arise when she begins to fall for her target.
      Director
      Sam Wood
      Production Co
      New World Productions Inc.
      Genre
      Romance, Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 10, 1946, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 11, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 42m
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