Heartbeat (1939 film)
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| Directed by | Mario Camerini |
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| Produced by | Giuseppe Amato |
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| Cinematography | Anchise Brizzi |
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Production company | Era Film |
| Distributed by | Generalcine |
Release date | 16 January 1939 |
Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| 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]
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[edit]
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.
Cast[edit]
- Assia Noris as Arlette / La baronessina Dvorak
- John Lodge as Lord Jerry Dansbury
- Rubi D'Alma as Contessa Maciaky
- Giuseppe Porelli as Il conte Mirko Maciaky
- Maurizio D'Ancora as Yves, il ladruncolo
- Armando Migliari as il commissario Dupont
- Luigi Almirante as Il professore Teofilo Comte
- Pina Gallini as Giulia Comte
- Calisto Bertramo as Il barone Dvorak
- Romolo Costa as Il capitano Kurt
- Giulio Stival as L'ambasciatore di Lucrazia
- Guglielmo Barnabò as Un detectivo dell'albergo 'Majestic'
- Luisella Beghi as Una ragazza disoccupata
- Bruno Calabretta as James
- Giorgio Capecchi as Il portiere dell'albergo 'Majestic'
- Dino De Laurentiis as Il fattorino del fioraio
- Aldo Fiorelli as Un allievo del professore Comte
- Aristide Garbini as Il brigadiere di polizia
- Alfredo Martinelli as Il segretario della 'Winterthur'
- Emilio Petacci as Il maitre del 'Lapin Rouge'
- Massimo Pianforini as Un marchese
- Nietta Zocchi as Un' altra ragazza disoccupata
References[edit]
- ^ Ricci p.148
Bibliography[edit]
- Ricci, Steven. Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922–1943. University of California Press, 2008.
External links[edit]
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