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.
85/100 整部電影以牌局和復仇兩條簡單的線索同時推進，不過施拉德對兩者都進行了大篇幅的留白處理，我們既不明晰牌局的規則，也不清楚復仇的細節，更不知道用白床單籠罩整個房間的意義，換言之，我們是這部電影的旁觀者，只能遠遠地觀望，並非直接參與者。施拉德有意地簡化了過程（牌局的部分幾乎是符號化的），只向我們展示前因與後果，這種布列松式的抽離設計貫徹全片，給人的感覺如同男主的撲克臉那般沈著冷靜。男主無疑是在牌桌上振臂高呼的美利堅先生光鮮外表的反面，他的過往代表了美國最不堪入目的陰暗面，但真正有權勢的階層是無需上桌的，是隱身的，就像背後支持的金主與全身而退的上校，手上沾血的永遠不會是他們，抱屈含冤的永遠只會是我們，因此這也是一部關於剝削與被剝削者之間博弈的電影。
三星半，救赎情节类型电影，主角能玩牌的设定可以换成任何其他技能，身边的小兄弟几乎就是他内心的样子，在寻求复仇的同时完成自我救赎，失去了现在的一切却又拥有了全新的自己和感情，漂亮的完成了正面反讽主义的影片，伊萨克越来越像克鲁尼了
Wosp 里没人在乎你是谁，只在乎你的手腕上有没有金手链～
除了鱼眼镜头以外，还有极度喧嚣的音乐，其他部分都还在考验我的观影能力和耐心
男主角的颜值撑完了全场！各大赌场的浏览纪录片…故事内核就是个复仇的故事，出来混都是要还的。折磨变态，克制，暴力，智慧，天资。莫名其妙的感情线…整体配乐难听到莫名其妙，半死不活刻意而为。但是男主真的帅到能看完…
有点牵强，但我又还挺喜欢这个故事，一些设定和场景蛮有意思，这么新的画面质量把啥都拍清晰了也不一定是好事，怪怪的观感。奥斯卡真他娘帅。
以全片做铺垫为了引导别人看爽快血腥的复仇结局。。。结果就这。。。
扑克手的特写，广角长镜头的梦魇，迷茫的自我救赎，对布列松的招魂，施拉德的回光返照。
莫名其妙的故事，人物关系和进展也很莫名，除了一点虐囚的镜头，真是乏善可陈
沉闷，Issac和Sheridan正常发挥，故意压平了character arc，反高潮地把能拍动作场面的事件都改成了第三人称叙述。气氛确实到位了，但也确实看得昏昏欲睡。
讽刺社会的隐喻？可惜对赌博类一窍不通尽管呆地连声音都帅气可voiceover解释部分完全入不了脑……
想起了PTA的赌城纵横，故事简单却处处透着作者的气息。情节没那么复杂算计，也没有浮夸的爱恨纠葛，有的只是一个祈求宽恕的男人。最好的一点还在于不煽情。
在这个年代看到这种风格的片子，让人感动，节奏缓慢，却又娓娓道来，会讲故事的人，什么时候都可以讲好一个逼近真实的故事。
一直以为旅馆用布包住会发生什么，结果啥也没有......
保罗施拉德放弃了能令人兴奋的一切。牌局高潮，血肉搏杀，哪怕短暂的性爱都是浮云般而过。他所专注在的，永远是过往人们难以遗忘的罪孽与伤痕。于是人们喃喃自语，封锁内心，幻想通过救赎他人来得到宽恕。他剧本中的人物永远将破碎的心藏在一个光鲜的残存外表之下，绝望地在这末世之中建立自己的救赎。
虽然将题材从宗教转变为赌博，但保罗施拉德通过沉稳、缓慢的叙事节奏隐隐约约让本片有着影史最沉闷赌片的潜质，故事本质上还是在延续《第一归正会》的通过自我救赎走出过往，只是回忆中鱼眼广角镜头下的虐囚与当下赌桌上逢赌必赢的“USA”口号，多少是在讽刺美国当下体制内的病态犹如这一场场赌局，看似充满希望，实则深陷泥潭
“He can recognize the Transcendent,he can study those methods which brought him to that realization,but that actual ‘why’of that realization is a mystery.”
5/10给我这种观影体验的今年只有两部，一部是《算牌人》，一部是《热带往事》。自带一种迷人的氛围，但这种氛围究其根本却让人觉得冗长无比。影片有一股日式黑暗的氛围（导演曾拍摄过《三岛由纪夫传》），由一个糜烂的创口开始过往，一切如图鱼眼镜头般变形成不可逆转。扑克牌牵扯一种连锁反应，和故事形成轴转体系，但故事如此朴素真不应该。
震惊！昔日愤怒的公牛竟成预防青少年犯罪公益大使(这也能进主竞赛？)
玩玩牌，做做噩梦，写写回忆录，后半辈子就这样过吧。影像一如既往地冷漠疏离，只是这次疏得有点远。
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