Rendezvous (1935)
1935 · Short film · 9 min · dir. William K. Howard
Bill Solves an Exciting Mystery and Wins a New Sweetheart!
- Comedy
- War
Synopsis
In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets her uncle to cancel Bill's orders and has him reassigned to break enemy codes. In his new assignment he becomes involved with beautiful Russian spy Olivia Karloff, who is working for the Germans, and must juggle Joel's affection and his pursuit of Karloff's connections to retrieve a stolen code book.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- William K. Howard
- Writer
- P.J. Wolfson
- Composer
- William Axt
- Cinematography
- William H. Daniels
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 1935-10-25
- Running time
- 9 minutes
Cast & crew
William K. Howard Director
William Powell
Rosalind Russell
Binnie Barnes
Lionel Atwill
Cesar Romero
Samuel S. Hinds
Henry Stephenson
Frank Reicher
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Full title: C'était un rendez-vous (It was a rendezvous) · Burqa · 2024-02-12
As a lover of Paris, this film interests me much. A camera fastened to the bumper of a car records a quick, stabbing tour through the heart of the city, all in one take. It’s August 1976, when everyone is on vacation; very early during a misty dawn and I never saw so few cars on the streets of Paris. At the beginning, director Claude Lelouch drives out of a tunnel at Porte Dauphine and flies down the Avenue Foch, whips around the Arc de Triomphe, and roars down the Champs Élysées to Concorde. From there he goes down the Quai des Tuileries, turns left to go through the Louvre to blast up…
