Heartbeat (1939 film)

Heartbeat
Directed by	Mario Camerini
Written by	Lilly Janüsse (novel) Renato Castellani Leo Longanesi Ivo Perilli Mario Camerini
Produced by	Giuseppe Amato
Starring	Assia Noris John Lodge Rubi D'Alma
Cinematography	Anchise Brizzi
Edited by	Mario Camerini Giovanna Del Bosco
Music by	Cesare A. Bixio Roberto Caggiani
Production company	Era Film
Distributed by	Generalcine
Release date	16 January 1939 (1939-01-16)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Heartbeat (Italian: Batticuore) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, John Lodge and Rubi D'Alma. It remade in France as Beating Heart in 1940, and then again in Hollywood as a 1946 film of the same title starring Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone.^[1]

It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It is part of the tradition of White Telephone comedies.

In Paris a young woman working at a school for thieves attempts to pick the pocket of an aristocrat. Instead of turning her in he blackmails her into stealing a clock from an ambassador.

• Ricci, Steven. Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922–1943. University of California Press, 2008.

• Heartbeat at IMDb

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