Café Metropole

An American passes himself off as a Russian prince. He does not do it by choice; a gambling debt has put him in the hands of a restaurant owner. The man gives him a job: to court a wealthy heiress visiting from Ohio. The plan works at first, but he falls for the woman in earnest. As the lie grows, everyone’s own calculation comes out. The film runs in the shape of a Hollywood comedy of the thirties. Who is deceiving whom is the motor of the account. The eighty four minutes are compressed into a few days. Loretta Young, Tyrone Power and Adolphe Menjou appear in Edward H. Griffith’s American film, completed in 1937.