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Alias French Gertie is an American pre-Code crime film directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based upon the unproduced play The Chatterbox by Bayard Veiller. The film stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, who were making their first on-screen appearance together. [3]
Alias French Gertie: Directed by George Archainbaud. With Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Daisy Belmore. A crook (Daniels) becomes a maid to steal jewelry.
- (165)
- Crime
- George Archainbaud
- 1930-04-20
Bebe Daniels ("French Gertie" Jones) and Ben Lyon (Jimmy Hartigan) are crooks who use different methods to achieve their ends: Daniels poses as a French maid to wealthy women, gains their trust, and eventually robs them; Lyon is a safe cracker.
- 68 Min.
Overview. A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.
Pre-code criminal comedy with a delightful Bebe Daniels as a jewel thief who poses as a French maid for wealthy marks and has a meet cute with safecracker Ben Lyon (Daniels’s IRL hubby) trying to steal the same jewels she’s eyeing. It loses a little steam when it focuses on them deciding to go straight, but still a lot of fun.
Marie, posing as a French maid, is about to enter her employer's safe when light-fingered Jimmy Hartigan surprises her and lifts the jewels. He is about to divide the spoils with her at gunpoint when the police arrive; and hiding Marie, he takes the rap. After his release from prison, he and Marie, now known as Gertie the Gun, form a ...
"Alias French Gertie" has a promising start, with "French" maid Bebe Daniels - actually an infamous jewel thief - about to complete her latest "job" in an unsuspecting household, when she is interrupted by expert cat burglar Ben Lyon, who is after the same target; she holds him at gunpoint for a while, before the police arrive and arrest him (he...
