Admission: $2.50
Monte Carlo is most famous for its delirious “Beyond the Blue Horizon” sequence, an image and sound symphony of speeding train wheels, whizzing tracks and flying landscapes that accompany a singing Jeanette MacDonald across the French countryside. The story has MacDonald as a countess who runs off to the casinos of Monte Carlo in order to evade matrimony with a foppish prince. There a triangle develops when British gentleman Jack Buchanan poses as her hairdresser in order to gain entrance to her boudoir (the film develops a hair fetish worthy of Luis Buñuel), and it all winds up with life imitating art as the plot resolution parallels a performance of the opera Monsieur Beaucaire. Claude Allister, as the asthmatic and prunefaced Prince Otto, is undoubtedly one of the cinema's greatest walking sight gags.