Heartbeat Movie Review   It could have been fun, for the idea is invitingly impudent and sly—it being that a romance should blossom between a lady pick-purse and a diplomat. And the early scenes, representing a Parisian pickpocket school presided over by a pompous Basil Rathbone, have a promising cheekiness and bounce. But as soon as one of the pupils, a fugitive from a girls' reform school, goes off to an embassy function and meets a swell there, the cards are down. Thereafter the substance of the picture is just a tedious and talky romance. It has neither wit nor novelty—nor even a vagrant dash of spice. The writing is weak, that's apparent, and the direction of Mr. Wood lacks humor and the comic inventiveness that a commenting camera should have. All the way through there grows the feeling that the whole thing is prudishly restrained, that the boys were cautiously instructed to keep it boy-meets-girlish and clean. As a consequence, this pseudo-French comedy is increasingly obvious and naive, tiresomely wishy-washy and no more Parisian than a bottle of cheap perfume. Miss Rogers, a talented lady who could play it if given half a chance, is limited largely to making a show of wide-eyed innocence. And Mr. Aumont, a bouncing French juvenile, plays the diplomat with boyish charm and grace. His brand of fairy-tale democracy looks good but it doesn't wash. Adolphe Menjou, Melville Cooper and Eduardo Ciannelli rather wearily and artificially play other diplomatic characters, and Mikhail Rasumny is again wasted in a small role. The chance for some satiric comment on parlour-diplomacy is muffed and its parallel play with petty thievery becomes pure (if not very good) fun." Bosley Crowther - The New York Times May 11, 1946
Heartbeat	Heartbeat (1946) Directed by Sam Wood Starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou and Basil Rathbone A young female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is caught red-handed on her first attempt at stealing by an upper class man. He recruits her to do him a favor at a society party where she meets and falls in love with a young, handsome, rich diplomat. Whether or not she can land him is another story. 100 Minutes - B & W - Comedy