9/10
Rita Hayworth as a dishonored call girl and Glenn Ford as a young astronomer - both young and innocent
9 August 2021
This is a delightful comedy with grave strokes of some very serious business. Rita Hayworth is brought to trial for suspected murder of her lover, as they struggled about a gun and the gun went off. Brian Aherne as a bicycle shop owner is one of the jurors and takes pity on her, inviting her to work for him and live in his house, where also the son Glenn Ford lives, a wannabe astronomer, who gets confused by her presence. There is a lot of exquisitely delightful French family business here, as complications rise around her case, as some keep insisting that she was guilty. The film is adorable even in translation, and the characters are all perfect - Brian Aherne taking the prize as the concerned but temperamental father, who fortunately suffers from a more sensible wife. As they are running some bicycle business, a certain tandem problem keeps returning with additional complications to more complicated relationships, but the ultimate release is reached when finally the tandem issue is resolved. Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth are both adorable as very young here, and you can't help recalling their later film "Gilda" made by the same director with even more critical circumstances to deal with. I am afraid this comedy has been rather underrated, as it actually is first class all the way.
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