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...cast as a girl of good provincial family, who has secretly written a bestselling novel-a fact which so horrifies her father that he ships her off to a convent. Wrong train, of course, and Brigitte winds up in Paris in the company of two young journalists (Daniel Gelin and Robert Hirsch) who have no money but plenty of notions. Brigitte soon gets one of her own, and enters a striptease contest to get rich quick. It turns out to be slow work, though, especially for the audience. Most of the time the journalists seem to be doing a class...
Director Moore has only been effective in creating theatrically seperate and scattered scenes which in no way hold together. He uses good and tried techniques, such as the flashback and the symbol, but he incredibly misuses them. Daniel Gelin struggles with some artistry to maintain the sympathy and interest of the audience in his Jekyll and Hyde sort of role, and at times he is almost successful. Marie Monsart is fittingly tender and beautiful as his one true love...
Although this film is in many ways unsatisfying, it is surely more than competent. Gina Lollobrigida is of course most convincing as the temptress and Daniel Gelin and Raymond Pellegrin are more than adequate as her various lovers. The photography is excellent...
...cast of the film reads something like an index of the modern French stage. It includes, among others, Gerard Philippe, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gelin, Simone Simon, Anton Walbrook, and Jean-Louis Barrault. All of these actors give fine performances, though two at least stand out from the rest: Walbrook, who plays the sophisticated master of ceremonies, and Barrault, as the poet. Few actors would have enough courage to make a declaration of love while lying on their backs on the floor, and enough talent to make the scene come off. Barrault, however, does. His work and that of Max Ophuls...
Stewart, as a puppy-friendly tourist, is soon pals with a jolly Frenchman (Daniel Gelin) and a pair of tweedy Britons (Bernard Mills and Brenda de Banzie). Doris is more suspicious: she thinks the Frenchman asks too many questions and that the Britons are just a little shifty-eyed. And what about the mysterious stranger with the death's-head face? Did he really knock at their hotel-room door by mistake? Even Jimmy realizes that something is up when Gelin, disguised as an Arab, comes staggering into the marketplace with a knife stuck in his back, and gasps...