Café Metropole (1937) DVD B&W Shown in original aspect ratio Approx. 83 min. Playable in North America (the US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) With optional English subtitles
Starring: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Charles Winninger and Helen Westley. Written by Jacques Deval (screenplay) and Gregory Ratoff (story). Directed by Edward H. Griffith.
An utterly charming confection, with Tyrone Power’s dissolute gambler (Alexander Brown) blackmailed into romancing heiress Loretta Young (Laura Ridgeway) by bankrupt Parisian hotel owner Adolphe Menjou (Monsieur Victor). It’s a magical, very funny and consistently surprising rom-com: Young is remarkably modern as the knowing, offhand love interest, who resolutely refuses to engage with each threat of melodrama. Her scene with Power’s head in her lap is just beautiful. And so is Helen Westley’s (Margaret Ridgeway) gangster-talk.
“IN LOVE...IN PARIS...IN THE SPRING! The sweethearts of "Love Is News" go madly romantic in gay Paree where anything can happen!”
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