Heartbeat (1939 film)

Heartbeat
Directed byMario Camerini
Written by
Produced byGiuseppe Amato
Starring
CinematographyAnchise Brizzi
Edited by
  • Mario Camerini
  • Giovanna Del Bosco
Music by
Production
company
Era Film
Distributed byGeneralcine
Release date
  • 16 January 1939 (1939-01-16)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Ricci p.148

Bibliography

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  • Ricci, Steven. Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922–1943. University of California Press, 2008.
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