Saw Love Me Tonight, a cute little pre-code film about a tailor in post-revolutionary France who follows a baron to his country home to collect a bill. Alas, when he arrives, he's mistaken for a baron himself (wouldn't you know it?) and meets cute with a lovelorn princess. The film is a musical and cute and stupid and a pleasant pokey way to spend some time.
The film has clearly been heavily edited however. There's a musical sequence where the tailor sings a love-song to the princess and, after an off-screen dinner with the whole family, the whole household is then singing this song to themselves. Clearly there was a too-racy-for-1930s reprise! Alas, this footage is lost to us now.
Anyway, the film is very cute and sweet. It's full of gentle silliness. There's a trio of old maids who always move as a unit and who exist only to be scandalized and to run about the mansion shouting "Ooh! Ooh!" At one point the nobles test the tailor by making him ride an unmanageable horse. The horse is kept in a padlocked stable marked "danger!"
The film is not out to make a point or to change hearts. It's only up to entertain and amuse. There's a comfy slobs vs snobs rascality to it and a self-aware datedness to the romance. It's pre-code, so there's a healthy, winking attitude towards sex and romance, and lots of humorously un-coy female desire.
The film was a bit more slight than I was in the mood for, but a solid, charming little film that would probably be suitable for watching with aged relatives.
