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...made a movie of its entitled "Folies Bergere" in 1941. The gimmick is Kaye, the night-club performer, impersonating Kaye, the greatest aviator since Lindbergh. The complications involve a multi-billion franc financial deal, a beautiful, half-clothed wife (Gene Tierney), and a beautiful, half-clothed dancing partner (Corinne Calvet). The plot is so involved that it deserves no more serious attention than it gets. But even its incredibility is worked for laughs...
...slick script get new humor out of a farce formula that was old when Plautus (254-184 B.C.) was young: the identities of the impersonator and the impersonated become snarled up until neither the Frenchman's wife (Gene Tierney) nor the American's girl friend (Corinne Calvet) are quite sure which is which. The confusion leaves wife Tierney frantically trying to figure out whether she has been faithful to her husband, sends the dialogue into neatly charted pyramids of double-entendre...
...Director Ford now shows a lively flair for broad strokes of comedy. Even when the movie gets close to his old home grounds, as in the cleanly staged scenes of overseas action, he tints it brightly with a sense of the ridiculous. In the French underground, bosomy Starlet Corinne Calvet, gotten up as an overblown copy of Rita Hayworth, makes a fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies, lampoons the bellicose American Legionnaire father with merciless skill. Dan Dailey flings himself...
...surrounding a fabulous South African diamond mining concession. Mounting guard on the diamonds are a shrewd, sadistic police chief (Paul Henreid), and his boss (Claude Rains), an elegant, cynical fellow who plays with human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...
Their plans, of course, go wrong. As soon as Miss Calvet, in a deep-chested décolletage, spots Lancaster in a sweaty, open-collared shirt, she is seized with a different idea: to walk off with Lancaster, diamonds or no. By the time she has had her way, the plot has encompassed a torture scene and the remarkable regeneration of the heroine. It has also been looped and twisted into a tricky knot of complications and double crosses. Rope, in fact, proves only two things: 1) given enough plot, any Hollywood melodrama can be counted on to hang itself...