A missing slipper launches a French farce across the Alps—1930s screwball chaos ensues.
A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her in Switzerland, and Georges (Roger Treville) follows Betty.
Costume
1930s alpine resort wear that screams disposable income.
Direction
Limur keeps farce airborne without modern editing tricks.
Acting
Stockfeld's Beatrice—dry, knowing, absolutely in on the joke.
Director
Jean de Limur
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code European cinema often smuggled sexual freedom through 'innocent' vacation settings; the Alps here function as moral free zone.
Stockfeld was Australian-British, part of a wave of English-speaking actresses dominating 1930s French cinema through sheer presence.
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