Parisian Love (VHS, 1999)

Clara Bow as Marie, a girl who entertains the "Americans" by dancing the Apache dance in this seedy Paris nightclub along with her "pretty boy" boyfriend Armand, and another guy. After their dance one night, they decide to rob the house of "rich and famous" Pierre Marcel, who is at the club that night. Marie disguises herself as a boy (and then waits outside - so why the disguise?), while the two men break into the house, only to find Pierre there who rises from bed and captures them. Oddly enough, he seems to recognize the handsome Armand and then makes excuses to the cops for him by saying he was a friend (why? My first impression was they were former lovers?!) while the other man is chased by the cops and killed. Armand thinks Marie was killed by the cops too - but it seems to me he has absolutely NO problem switching his affections from female to male as Pierre and Armand figure out that Armand was once Pierre's student at University, they "bond", and then move in together. Marie is jealous and decides to get even with Pierre for stealing her man. So she makes a plan to take Pierre for "every franc he's got" - by marrying him. She now disguises herself as a girl from a convent, introduces herself to Pierre as a friend of a deceased friend, and then dances the tango with Pierre who quickly falls in love with her. This movie is pretty good - nothing great, but quite enjoyable. The music on the Kino DVD (this film is on the same DVD as Down to the Sea in Ships) is a decent / neutral piano score. Nice-looking tinted print too.