Feel My Pulse (1928) DVD-R

Starring Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell, Melbourne
MacDowell, George Irving
Directed by Gregory La Cava

Print: black/white
Runtime: 86 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

Bebe Daniels' popular Paramount comedies of the 1920s frequently cast
the sprightly heroine as a female Douglas Fairbanks, saving the day with
equal parts cleverness and physical dexterity. Feel My Pulse is a typically
Fairbanksian romp, with Daniels playing a sheltered rich girl who has
been convinced (and has convinced herself) that she is suffering from
multiple maladies. When Daniels inherits a health sanitarium, she moves
in bag and baggage, hoping to cure her many imagined ailments. Actually,
all she needs is a good jolt of adventure, excitement, and romance, and
this she gets when bootleggers set up shop at the sanitarium. Daniels is
so full of vim, vigor and vitality at the end of the film that she's even
willing to kiss leading-man Richard Arlen without worrying about catching
any germs. Like many of the Daniels' comedies, Feel My Pulse is
benefited immeasurably by the roguish villainy of star-in-the-making
William Powell.