John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
感觉是八十年代那种叙事风格，正派反派的理想主义。
印度电影单拿出来都属于事倍功半的那种笨电影，时不时让人觉得伪善，但是你不得不佩服有一说一的那股子追求公理正义的愣劲。印度电影的犯罪题材不像好莱坞，抢银行飞车炸街枪战一百年未必有两回，也不像韩国拍那种疑案悬案惨案十几二十年的歇斯底里。印度人拍犯罪片老老实实拍最常见的恶，欺负穷人，祸害妇女，警察打人，官员庇护，种族阶级信仰的歧视。对日常恶的揭露是更有价值的，电影家需要去揭露这种丑陋，而非让观众浸溺于奇观之中。三星电影，因为题材多给一星。
我们惊叹电影真敢拍的时候，现实却比电影残酷得多
感觉是现实意义比较重大，作为一部电影和一个故事来看，影片的叙事节奏过于拖沓，充满了无关紧要的细枝末节，和这样高的评分应该有的影片质量比较不符合。
富强 民主 文明 和谐 自由 平等 公正 法治 爱国 敬业 诚信 友善
韩国有《辩护人》，印度有《杰伊比姆》，中国有……？
前面很棒，后面拖拉，印度电影就是有一个老毛病，就喜欢把电影的篇幅拉这么长。
太难受了，印度种姓制度真的丧心病狂啊！信仰本应该是救人的，但是在印度可以杀人。诛心啊！但是尽管如此，依然对于印度敢拍出来这样电影甚是欣慰。毕竟最绝望的是欲盖弥彰自我感觉良好的周遭。
pps,看的版本是机器翻译吧，太差了……
中规中矩。虽然小人物对抗强权的剧情很容易引起观众的共情，但整体没有特别出彩的地方，几段歌曲的插入也破坏了叙事连贯性，法庭戏也基本处在我方王者，对方青铜的状态上，没有营造过多的紧张感。
再次验证豆瓣冷门分类的标准可能是影片剧情和绝大多数中国观众的生活差距要够大。起码揭露黑暗的那一半差距要够大。
七年前我曾在印度旅行，行走贫民窟，感受溽热，垃圾味，还在孟买海边经历了一场盛大象神节。也许印度的历史太深厚沉重，使它如淤泥一般覆盖在今天，拨也拨不去，所以你很容易在表象的印度和真实的印度之间沉迷。宛如一颗宝珠捧在脏手里。我们在电影里常看到歌舞的印度，现代的印度，励志的印度，欢笑的印度，但那都不是真印度，可能大量的印度人自己都没机会坐在影院里看到这种印度，贫民窟工人一个月辛苦的收入仅相当于人民币一两百元，而我在他们高级商场里吃饭，并不奢侈的一顿饭也是人均一两百。这部电影就是替那些进不去商场的人说话的，所以它意义非凡，换一个词，它是自己拍摄的“辱印”的印度片，揭露警察体系的黑暗和种姓制度的不公。当年离开时我购买了一个甘地像，至今仍摆在我的书房。甘地具有一种精神，正是不屈的人性。
每次都会被印度电影的反抗精神震撼，本片涉及的冤案悲天悯人的基调令人义愤填膺。没有人权的低种姓人，被暴行践踏，被歧视压榨。更有甚者，被安上莫须有的罪名强行屈打成招。贫苦并没有剥夺他们的善良与尊严，捉住蛇后放其回归自然，被冤枉后遭受殴打虐待仍不认罪。“皮肉的伤痛可以愈合，但偷盗的罪名一旦扣下就是一生”。影片毫不遮掩地剖开印度司法体系的黑暗与腐败，将其赤裸裸地呈现在印度民众乃至世界的视野中。“法院将给出的不仅是一次判决，更是希望”。在律师对真相步步还原，对正义据理力争的情况下，罪恶终于得到了合理的审判。“斗争的运动代表的是千万受压迫者的泪水，斗争万岁”。
但权势者需要之时还要讨价还价地拿走它。
手法中规中矩，但事件本身足够打人。国内也不乏类似案件（如列树宾案），也不缺正义的法律警和有骨气的当事人，但维拳和表达空间还是狭窄太多。
全片印象最深，其实不是结局，而是妻子那一句『生命是最重要的，即使是那些警察中了蛇毒，我也会救他们』
为了正义，哪怕天崩地裂，影片正是一个根据真实故事改编的关于追寻正义的故事。人权律师钱德鲁为无端受冤的低种族部落家庭伸张正义、抵抗黑暗，最终通过法律的武器赢得胜利，恢复正义。
印度电影从不会让我失望！前三十分钟就非常好了。去年光看了简介我就没什么兴趣，到2022年想想2021整年都没看过好的印度电影，无奈看看这部。对不起，2021我错过了这部电影。原来是共产主义电影。想起国内那个偷窃的妇女，被带去警察局，她的幼女饿死在家中的故事，也是security系统的问题，可以拍
很工整的片，以至于想要更多反转，可惜没有。法庭和监狱穿插的节奏还是很带感的，只是作文命题太明显，新意欠缺，唯一印象深刻的可能就是自由的上街游行吧。
社会现实向的叙述性电影。滥用的国家权利，腐败的公职人员，以及以及命如蝼蚁的平民。即使如蝼蚁，也努力需求生存的美好，和尚存的那道正义的微光。如果不那么冗余的话，可能会更好一些。
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