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Siskoid

Pre-Code Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier playing a love-addicted soldier from some European country, who sings ridiculous ditties... That could be a number of movies. But this one was The Smiling Lieutenant, a very oddly-structured romcom (a feature, not a bug) seeing as Chevalier is almost immediately in a relationship with Claudette Colbert, but then he gets in hot water with visiting aristocrats, thinks he can charm/Bugs Bunny himself out of it, and finds out what happens when a princess takes a shine to him. And keeps not going where you think it will, to the point where I really question Colbert's decision at the end (but truth be told, if there's a "perfect couple" in here, it's Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, whose piano skills are impressive, by the by). These kinds of movies are puff pastries, just fluffy entertainments that, thanks to the Lubitsch touch have some nice wit and energy. In this case, someone slipped a hot pepper in the pastry. It is QUITE steamy, especially considering I've always found Chevalier and Colbert to look like drawn cartoons of people. Fan me, I'm a little hot under the collar here.

3 years 4 months ago

Camille Deadpan

https://ok.ru/video/838002215442

3 years 7 months ago

1Cloche

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24084w_the-smiling-lieutenant_shortfilms

9 years 5 months ago