Welcome to the Movie Club! Today’s movie is Rouben Mamoulian pre-code musical comedy Love Me Tonight.
Love Me Tonight follows Maurive Courtelin, a tailor who finds himself pretending to be a nobleman while attempting to collect payment from an aristocratic client. Along the way he finds himself enamored with one of them, Princesse Jeanette, and attempts to conceal his identity while they fall in love.
As an older film there isn’t much available regarding its box office earnings or reception. It has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from modern critics, but Wikipedia makes it seem as if its initial reception was quite a bit more mixed1. And our only source for box office data is how much it made in rentals ($685,000), according to a blog post from 2007: https://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2007/10/you-didnt-have-ice-cream-all-way.html And this blog is still updated, the most recent update was last Monday! I love finding little corners of the internet like this.
Trivia:
- The post-production code release of the film was trimmed down by 8 minutes and the missing footage has never been found!
- Allegedly the first film to use a zoom lens!
Up Next: What was going to be our next movie via random selection was going to be Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie, but given its recency it’s not available in the UK yet digitally. I’m thinking about delaying it until it has a wider release, so in the meantime, our next movie will be Rodrigo Garcia’s biblical drama film Last Days in the Desert! Check out the trailer and where it’s playing below:
USA
- Stream: Prime Video, Kanopy, Fawesome, Hoopla, Shout Factory (via Prime Video), The Roku Channel, Tubi, Up Faith & Family (via Prime Video), Xumo Play, YouTube (for free)
- Rent or Buy: Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Google Play, YouTube, Flix Fling, Spectrum (Rental only)
Canada
- Stream: Hoopla, Tubi
- Rent or Buy: MovieMe, FlixFling, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, CosmoGO
UK
- Stream: Prime Video, Rakuten TV, YouTube (for free)
- Rent or Buy: Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Prime Video, Rakuten TV, Sky Store