Word: torcher
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...from these characters that Truffaut constructs his vignettes, and each is uniformly chaotic. The best is Sam Golden's saloon sequence. Golden, black-shirted and white-tied, delivers a classic big band blues arrangement of a my-baby-done-me-wrong torcher, and does it in phonetic English as the camera roams over the crowd, Vegas in the South of France, eagerly fondling waitress Camille, while her lout husband seethes. From there, Truffaut films a short Western sequence. It's as if his characters had been dropped onto a John Ford backlot and allowed to pursue each other at random...
...carnival, proves to be no slouch at parlor games and turns in a first rate romantic performance. Playing a Norwegian refugee adopted by Miller's band as a publicity gag, Sonja falls for pianist-arranger John Payne. He, however, is already somewhat attached to torch singer Lynn Bari. The torcher oozes more sex appeal than the skater, but she's a dub in the snow. So Sonja gets Payne out in the open and love soon finds a way to leave the hot mama out in the cold...
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