by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Writer Emeric Pressburger is best known for his 1940s British film collaborations with producer/director Michael Powell. In a previous life, however, Pressburger toiled away in the German film industry. Beautiful Adventure was adapted by Pressburger and director Reinhold Schuenzel from a French stage play by Etienne Rey and Robert DeFlers. Ida Wuest stars as a lovely fraulein engaged to a corpulent man of wealth. She runs off on the day of her wedding with the man she really loves, sparking a merry chase throughout Europe. This was the sort of frothily foolish fare that German film fans ate up both before and after the advent of Hitler.
characteristics
- Marriage-arranged
- Love
- Musical [play]
- Songwriter
- Songwriting
- Kidnap
- Jokes
- Fake
- Engagement
- Fortuneteller
- Heir
- Jilt