Devil-May-Care (1929)

Directed by

Sidney Franklin

Genre

musical film, satanic film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A romantic comedy set during the Napoleonic era. A young lieutenant finds himself entangled with a group of clever women who play games of love and deception.

romanticlightheartedwhimsicalenergeticold-fashionedmusicalplayfulglamorous

What happens

Devil-May-Care is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Sidney Franklin with a Technicolor sequence of the Albertina Rasch Dancers. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 27, 1929 and was Ramon Novarro's talkie debut. The film is based upon the 1851 play La Bataille de dames, ou un duel en amour by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe. It is known by a variety of other names, including Battle of the Ladies (the film's working title), Der Leutnant des Kaisers (Austria), Der jüngste Leutnant (Germany), Il tenente di Napoleone (Italy), and O lohagos tis aftokratorikis frouras (Greece). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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