Heartbeat (Italian: Batticuore) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, John Lodge and Rubi D'Alma. It remade in France as Beating Heart in 1940, and then again in Hollywood as a 1946 film of the same title starring Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone.[1]

Heartbeat
Directed byMario Camerini
Written by
Produced byGiuseppe Amato
Starring
CinematographyAnchise Brizzi
Edited by
  • Mario Camerini
  • Giovanna Del Bosco
Music by
Production
company
Era Film
Distributed byGeneralcine
Release date
  • 16 January 1939 (1939-01-16)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It is part of the tradition of White Telephone comedies.

Synopsis

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In Paris a young woman working at a school for thieves attempts to pick the pocket of an aristocrat. Instead of turning her in he blackmails her into stealing a clock from an ambassador.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Ricci p.148

Bibliography

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  • Ricci, Steven. Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922–1943. University of California Press, 2008.
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