In Montmartre, pickpocket Gertrude Lawrence and apache Charlie Ruggles form an alliance, but when she lifts Walter Petrie's wallet, she falls in love, and they move in together. Then World War One starts, and it's off to the front for the men, while Miss Lawrence becomes a nurse by day and a chanteuse by night. When Ruggles, Petrie, Arthur Treacher, and Joe King are wounded and given leave in Paris, they all go out on the town to have some adventures.
It's definitely worth seeing for Miss Lawrence, Ruggles trying a French accent, Treacher not playing a butler, and a score that includes some early Cole Porter tunes, but the copy I saw was rather incoherently edited, with songs and comic sequences inserted at random. Perhaps it was better on original release at 80 minutes, but the 68-minute version I saw seemed a lot worse for wear. This was shot at Paramount's studio in Astoria, so George Folsey's camera isn't as tied down as it might have been in Hollywood, but the soundtrack was not very good for the musical numbers.
It's definitely worth seeing for Miss Lawrence, Ruggles trying a French accent, Treacher not playing a butler, and a score that includes some early Cole Porter tunes, but the copy I saw was rather incoherently edited, with songs and comic sequences inserted at random. Perhaps it was better on original release at 80 minutes, but the 68-minute version I saw seemed a lot worse for wear. This was shot at Paramount's studio in Astoria, so George Folsey's camera isn't as tied down as it might have been in Hollywood, but the soundtrack was not very good for the musical numbers.