So Long At The Fair

A highly inventive and original plot makes up for the lack of deep characterization in this movie that keeps audiences guessing. It's 1889 in Paris, where the Great Exhibition is taking place. (This was sort of a World's Fair, but since another one had been done in the US, they had to call it something different.) The city is packed with people and enjoying good weather when Simmons and her brother, Tomlinson, arrive from England to partake of the pleasure of Paris. They have separate rooms, and when she wakes up one morning after a night on the town, she can't find him. Further, there is no evidence of his having been there at all. His name doesn't appear on the h...