A very old movie with a terrible audio and a terrible sound, and none of the beautiful photography that I found in Intermezzo. The only thing I liked was Joan Fontaine playing Lady Alice.
It’s a simple story: rich Alice loves an American but her aunt wants her to marry Reggie so she escapes and bumps into Jerry Halliday (Fred Astaire). Jerry is fed up with his fame and all the people and women chasing him, but is fascinated by her who doesn’t even know him.
The servants in Alice’s house make bets on who she will marry, so a kid there writes to Jerry pretending to be Alice in love with him to get them to meet again (he writes that she’s in trouble and needs help, hence the dansel in distress title). There are the usual misunderstanding (well, usual now, maybe not then) when she talks of the man she likes and he thinks she speaks about him. When she realizes she loves him now she explains to him the truth, but then the kid (who was forced to swap bets so now wants him to lose) shows her a newspaper and convinces her that he’s a playboy.
When the kid Albert is forced to swap bets again, he rips his ticket in anger. Jerry explains to her that it’s all false publicity so they make peace.
After being found in her room, even her aunt wants him to marry her to avoid scandal.
Gracie (Gracie Allen) is the dumb girl who provides some comedy, too bad the audio was so awful I couldn’t get anything she said. I didn’t like the kid at all, and found a lot of this rather boring. I didn’t like the few songs and dances, and the dancing at the luna-park was too long. I didn’t like much even the tip-tapping with the drum.
ITA una magnifica avventura
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