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Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Captures the lure of newcomers to Manhattan
While the focus of the comedy, the plight of the shopaholic, merely uses downtown New York City as a pretty backdrop when it could easily be set in any western world major fashion center, it is the side plot, the heart of topsy turvy Manhattan, which brings out its charm. Although the plot seems nonsense fluff on the surface, the reason there are more than perhaps ten million city residents who can live in downtown Manahttan but wouldn't,is the truth behind the nonsense side plot of the movie- Folks wealthy enough to send one of their paid army of competent flunkies to arrange their next meal, along with other things, are the ones who become belligerent and testy on take out lines at places such as street hot dog vendors, while sales staff in the highest level world class boutiques might find register transactions declined because the customer is behind in his or her cash under the table rent for an apartment in which he or she is not an identified resident. .
Forty Naughty Girls (1937)
A remake of a German language film named PREMIERE
The German language film is set during a performance of a musical revue. The production numbers of the musical review are staged as a musical. The murder mystery, in the theater while the performance progresses, is played as a standard detective story. This concept,of two independent stories played side by side, during a short time interval in the same theater in just over an hour, carries into the American remake. What is added to the American remake is that the inspector and the amateur sleuth are stock characters of a detective series. Neither the quality of the musical production numbers nor the plot line of the murder mystery live up to the German language original. The value of this film is more a valuable memory of films of this important era of the past than a film of high quality on its own right.