Café Metropole
1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Victor Lobard, the smooth and nimble owner of the Café Metropole in Paris, has only ten days to replace a small fortune he embezzled from the business; he and a clerk face prison if he fails. He thinks he's won the money at a casino then learns he's in possession of a rubber check written by Alexander Brown, a well-mannered but penniless Yank. Lobard cooks up a scheme: to have Brown pretend to be a Russian prince, woo a visiting American, and get her rich father to give Brown the money Lobard needs. Several problems: Brown's not a very good impostor, a real Russian prince presents himself, and the two young people fall in love. Does prison await or do wild strawberries?
Direction Edward H. Griffith
Cast Loretta Young · Tyrone Power · Adolphe Menjou · Gregory Ratoff · Charles Winninger · Helen Westley · Christian Rub · Ferdinand Gottschalk · Georges Renavent · Leonid Kinskey
Soundtrack David Buttolph · Cyril J. Mockridge
Screenplay Jacques Deval · Gregory Ratoff
Cinematography Lucien N. Andriot
Original title Café Metropole
6.1
57 votes (FilmAffinity)
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