The Guardsman

A tattered, irresistable Valentine, more like a photographed stage play than a film, but a souvenier of lyrical, happy talent. French playwright Ferenc Molnar's clever marital comedy was never better performed than by the illustrious stars of American theater, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who had made the play a Broadway hit in 1924.

This bubbling sex farce begins when Lunt, watching Fontanne dreamily playing Chopin on the piano, suspects that her mind is on another. He quickly determines to resolve this doubt by a dangerous charade. Impersonating his imagined rival--a Russian guardsman with mustache and broad accent--he seduces his wife, who turns the tables...