Heartbeat

Based on a film screenplay entitled “Battlement de Coeur,” the all-star cast make this lighthearted farce good entertainment. Ginger Rogers is by far the best of the pickpockets taught by Basil Rathbone in his Parisian school for pickpockets. When she goes to the Embassy ball to try out her newly-acquired skills, her intended victim–the handsome Jean Pierre Aumont–instead becomes the object of her affection., A reform school runaway is taken in by a Paris pickpocket school and learns the trade. After being caught on her first attempt, she meets and falls for a young diplomat., Ginger Rogers as a female Oliver Twist, tutored in the art of picking pockets by a crook.