Cafe Metropole (1937)
Explaining the plot to Café Metropole will sound a little complicated, but if you liked Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, or its original Bedtime Stories, you’ll probably like this predecessor and offshoot. Tyrone Power owes a huge gambling debt to restaurant owner Adolphe Menjou, and rather than face jail time for writing a bad check, he agrees to Adolphe’s plan: impersonate a Russian prince and woo a wealthy American tourist, then get the money out of her.
It doesn’t matter that Ty’s Russian accent isn’t perfect, because he’s supposed to be just as unconvincing as he is handsome. Loretta Young plays the target, and while she immediately falls in love with him, her father Charles Winninger and aunt Helen Westley are suspicious of the smooth young man. I would have preferred a different leading lady, as I’ve only been able to stand Loretta Young in one movie, and this isn’t it. Her talent turns her character into an immature, undesirable child, and her delivery of every line sounds enormously condescending. Charlie and Helen are very cute in this movie, so if you liked them in the previous year’s Show Boat, you’ll love them in this. Adolphe is given some great lines, and unlike the female lead in the film, he doesn’t squander them. In the first scene, he helps a pie-eyed Ty out of his restaurant. “Why two hats?” the drunken and double-visioned Ty asks when Adolphe tries to get him dressed and off the premises. “It’s the fashion this season, sir,” Adolphe glibly explains, showing the audience that he’ll do anything to maintain the dignity of his restaurant. Check out this comedy if you like the cast. You’ll also be treated to a very cute theme from Louis Silvers throughout the movie!
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It doesn’t matter that Ty’s Russian accent isn’t perfect, because he’s supposed to be just as unconvincing as he is handsome. Loretta Young plays the target, and while she immediately falls in love with him, her father Charles Winninger and aunt Helen Westley are suspicious of the smooth young man. I would have preferred a different leading lady, as I’ve only been able to stand Loretta Young in one movie, and this isn’t it. Her talent turns her character into an immature, undesirable child, and her delivery of every line sounds enormously condescending. Charlie and Helen are very cute in this movie, so if you liked them in the previous year’s Show Boat, you’ll love them in this. Adolphe is given some great lines, and unlike the female lead in the film, he doesn’t squander them. In the first scene, he helps a pie-eyed Ty out of his restaurant. “Why two hats?” the drunken and double-visioned Ty asks when Adolphe tries to get him dressed and off the premises. “It’s the fashion this season, sir,” Adolphe glibly explains, showing the audience that he’ll do anything to maintain the dignity of his restaurant. Check out this comedy if you like the cast. You’ll also be treated to a very cute theme from Louis Silvers throughout the movie!
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Classic Movies Kristine Rose" for posting!
More Tyrone Power movies here!