John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
仿佛盖·里奇电影和《惊世狂花》的拼贴，狭小空间多线叙事诸多人物粉墨登场。如果是导演的处女作，说明宁浩有接班人了
3.5。如果这故事顺序讲就没太大意思了，这样讲就还挺不错~最大问题可能是有点跟不上时代。残疾小孩乞讨这个，感觉是好多年前的事，如今时代变了，手机支付时代，残疾小孩乞讨感觉没有了……要不把年代提前，送外卖的改成送快递~
扮猪吃虎的剧本杀。反正疯狂反转就没错。有点意思。
要是最后外卖员的戏份可以处理好就可谓升华了，但最后的最后还是邪不压正的一套，未免有些俗套了
三星半。可能多数人希望的结局，是在警察冲入房间，把小马堵个正着时结束吧，或许这种所谓的开放结局会更让人钟于打高分，不过喜欢HE的我，还是愿意为好人至少没有恶报的结尾，多打半星。
挺好看，但剧情的紧张感因为太熟悉演员而减弱不少，总觉得格局不太大，巧合也挺多。
3星半，7分，对大众影迷是个小惊喜
整体结构不错，故事多方穿插，层层递进，善恶难辨，但是剧情生硬，人物动机都不符合正常逻辑，人物个性前后矛盾差太多，配角穷凶极恶但一碰就挂，主角开光环一次又一次残血反杀，最后结尾强行升华啼笑皆非，作为话剧应该挺不错，但拍成电影实在有些无聊
三星半。可能多数人希望的结局，是在警察冲入房间，把小马堵个正着时结束吧，或许这种所谓的开放结局会更让人钟于打高分，不过喜欢HE的我，还是愿意为好人至少没有恶报的结尾，多打半星。
非常好看的一个犯罪片，而且通过黑色幽默的包装，更是精彩。一个反转接着一个反转，没想到最后居然出现了这么多人，太不可思议了！虽然缺点也挺明显的，而且我也觉得给五颗星稍微有些多了，但还是想鼓励一下编剧，非常棒！给人留下深刻印象的片段，就是范伟强行伪装大佬，可以说是全片的高潮。
反转密集，但刻意、仓促，导致开局不久往后每一次反转都在渐渐消磨耐心和好奇心。尤其到结尾窦骁在那推冰块的选择，降智且故作姿态。好在能看出编剧有在为情节逻辑自恰而努力。总体无喜无厌。
不管谁拍的电影涉及到倒卖人口犯罪，不论拍得水平如何，我都必须帮帮场子。
楼下花园和筒子楼的构造以及营造的氛围，想起来，博尔赫斯，小径分岔的花园。
很多细节点有被猜到，两个罪犯来接头时的表现有点刻意黑色幽默。这种感觉我不太喜欢，就是能察觉导演的意图，但这样的意图并不是我想看到的
小20年过去，国内还是就宁浩一个把盖里奇抄明白了。最离谱的是，结尾甚至抄了《神探》……离谱啊。
朱珠这张脸是因为《叛逆者》才记住的。
这个故事有点像睡前故事，中规中矩。
knock knock
3.5 可真是比我和我的XXX系好，也比很多院线国产片好。
谁是好人谁是坏人，谁对谁错，谁生谁死，都在一念之间。多次反转，很精彩的片子。
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