Cafe Metropole

Cafe Metropole
  • Release date: 7 May 1937
  • Release year: 1937
  • Runtime: 83 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: 1930s, year 1937, lie, rich girl, the truth, farce comedy, power and young, american, tipping a maitre d', office safe
Plot:
Victor Lobard, the smooth and nimble owner of the Cafe Metropole in Paris, has only 10 days to replace a small fortune he embezzled from the business; he and a clerk face prison if he fails. He thinks he's won the money at a casino, then learns he's in possession of a rubber check written by Alexander Brown, a well-mannered but penniless Yank. Lobard cooks up a scheme to have Brown pretend to be a Russian prince, woo a visiting American, and get her rich father to give Brown the money Lobard needs. Several problems: Brown's not a very good impostor, a real Russian prince presents himself, and the two young people fall in love. Does prison await or do wild strawberries?
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