Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Perfect cast and a good story

Beautiful, moving film.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

In Ernst Lubitsch's Monte Carlo, Jeanette MacDonald is paired with Jack Buchanan, instead of her usual partner Maurice Chevalier. Miss MacDonald's acting is not as sharp as Marlene Dietrich's might have been in the role. The picture needs an amoral diva, and Jeanette is too sweet, too soft to play such a role. The rest of the film is fine and it contains the usual humor associated with a Lubitsch production. The story is about an aristocratic woman (MacDonald) who browbeats and abuses her personal stylist, a male, at every turn (Buchanan). She fires and hires him back countless times, and gradually realizes that she loves him. The irony is that he is a moneyed aristocrat himself, in hiding from his wealthy family. The highly implausible story is saved by the music and inspired direction.

This time it's the beautiful and witty early Jeanette MacDonald, before Nelson Eddy came along - in an unusual Lubitsch romantic comedy musical! A high society romp involving financially embarrassed Countess Helene (Jeanette MacDonald) bolting during a wedding to stuffy but rich Duke Otto (Claude Allister). Her idea is to escape to Monte Carlo and gamble herself back into the upper circles, without depending on men in her life. It doesn't work out, due to many twists of the wheel as well as the plot, involving Count Rudolph (Jack Buchanan) - and Duke Otto - now both after her. Lots of sophisticated laughs at the antics of the high-born, sort of verbal slapstick. And some great music too, even beyond the blue horizon!

102: Monte Carlo (1930) - released 8/27/1930, viewed 6/23/08.KEVIN: I feel compelled to keep this brief, because I don't think this movie will stick with me. I didn't hate it, I just couldn't fall in love with it like I usually do with Ernst Lubitsch. There were plenty of enjoyable moments to keep me watching until the end, but I found the love story somewhat confusing. I blame this on Jack Buchanan as the male lead. His character is not only a liar, but a manipulator and stalker, and I must say there wasn't anything terribly charming about him. Buchanan played him just too creepy for me to root for him. Jeanette MacDonald was excellent, as usual, but her growing infatuation with this creep was what really confused me. I suspect when we've watched all of Lubitsch's other hits, this one will not rank so high.DOUG: Only Ernst Lubitsch could make such a breezy, likable comedy with such despicable characters. Jeanette MacDonald plays the flighty, naïve Countess Helene, who ditches her wedding to head off somewhere fun and ends up in Monte Carlo. Jack Buchanen plays Count Rudolph, a total creep who decides to court Helene by getting hired as her barber and stalking her at every turn. Claud Allister plays Prince Otto, the dim-witted older man Helene is set to marry. The proceedings are amusing in that fun Lubitsch kind of way; everyone's just on the edge of crazy throughout and are all the more enjoyable for it. The love story is rather dated though; I found Rudy to be an obsessive manipulative loon, scheming his way into her bedroom and saving locks of her hair. Because it's Lubitsch, it's all fluffy and lighthearted, but this is maybe my least favorite of his films so far.Last film viewed: The Divorcée (1930). Last film chronologically: The Big House (1930). Next film viewed: The Criminal Code (1930). Next film chronologically: Animal Crackers (1930).

I have this movie recorded from TV and reading the comment by mgmax I was really perplexed about the fact of the wrongly numbered reels. I don't know if such a thing happened or not but anyway there is nothing baffling in the scene in which Buchanan presents himself to Mc Donald as a hairdresser after having seen her in a preceding scene. This is why he saw her but she didn't see him. I went to have a look to the movie and this is how it happens: when the Count and a friend of him see her going to the casino for the first time he sends his friend to make acquaintance with Jeanette. The friend receives a slap on his face. She touches the humpbacked and goes on her way. The two men then say: why! she's superstitious. So the Count goes after her and tells her to touch his hair if she wants very good luck at the casino. She never turns back and continues going toward the casino's entry door. He follows and goes on speaking, she never answers. Then she enters and closes the door right on his face. He turns back standing near the the door. She puts out an arm and touches the back of the head of the Count then closes the door again. As for the film I agree that Buchanan is not the right actor to interpret the character of the Count, the songs are mostly good but the story is a little cliché.