I found this movie scrolling through some of Jimmy Stewart's filmography before he was famous with movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The Philadelphia Story. The idea of Stewart playing a Frenchman was...an interesting choice to say the least. I had heard of Simone Simon before but couldn't name anything notable that she had been in. Still I was open to it. The movie started out all right but eventually dropped in quality. While Stewart does a good job in the role it can be a little distracting to hear him use his normal American accented voice while everyone else puts on a French accent (not that that's a particularly accurate portrayal of France either). The biggest problem for me was that the story seemed kind of cliched. I know that this is 1937 and the film itself is a remake of an older movie anyways but I wasn't really surprised by anything and more or less guessed what was going to happen. If romantic comedies in Paris are your thing then you'll probably find it fine. Not a bad movie, necessarily, just didn't do a whole lot for me.
Review of Seventh Heaven
