Complete credited cast: | |||
Ginger Rogers | ... | Arlette Lafron | |
Jean-Pierre Aumont | ... | Pierre de Roche (as Jean Pierre Aumont) | |
Adolphe Menjou | ... | Ambassador | |
Melville Cooper | ... | Roland Latour | |
Mikhail Rasumny | ... | Yves Cadubert | |
Eduardo Ciannelli | ... | Baron Ferdinand Dvorak | |
Mona Maris | ... | Ambassador's Wife | |
Henry Stephenson | ... | Minister | |
Basil Rathbone | ... | Professor Aristide |
A young female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is caught red-handed on her first attempt at stealing by an upper class man. He recruits her to do him a favor at a society party where she meets and falls in love with a young, handsome, rich diplomat. Whether or not she can land him is another story. Written by Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
This film, although not among Ginger Rogers best work, is certainly worth checking out. As usual she is most engaging--she plays a teen (she was actually 35) somewhat convincingly. She has run away from a girls reformatory and is recruited by Professor Aristide (Basil Rathbone), who runs a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is assigned a pickpocketing "job" by a corrupt ambassador (Adolph Menjou). Of course along the way she meets a man (Jean-Pierre Aumont), falls in love and well, you get the drift. The supporting cast is also entertaining most notably Adolph Menjou, although one doesn't see Basil Rathbone nearly enough here. At times the story is slow moving and quite predictable, but when Ginger is on the screen her beauty,charm and magnetism more than compensate for this. If you are a fan of Ginger Rogers, Adolph Menjou or Basil Rathbone this largely forgotten film is worth a look.