Heartbeat (1939 film)

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Heartbeat
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Directed by Mario Camerini
Written by
Produced by Giuseppe Amato
Starring
Cinematography Anchise Brizzi
Edited by
  • Mario Camerini
  • Giovanna Del Bosco
Music by
Production
company
Era Film
Distributed byGeneralcine
Release date
16 January 1939
Running time
87 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

Heartbeat (Italian: Batticuore) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, John Lodge and Rubi D'Alma. It remade in France as Beating Heart in 1940, and then again in Hollywood as a 1946 film of the same title starring Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone. [1]

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It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It is part of the tradition of White Telephone comedies.

Synopsis

In Paris a young woman working at a school for thieves attempts to pick the pocket of an aristocrat. Instead of turning her in he blackmails her into stealing a clock from an ambassador.

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References

  1. Ricci p.148

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