Operation Heartbeat (U.M.C.) - DVD

Postwar America was a time of status quo, a conventional era at which three unconventional people thumbed their noses, lives foreshadowing the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s: Jack Kerouac. Carolyn Cassady. And Neal Cassady, the free spirit who became the heroic model for Kerouac's landmark novel On the Road. Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek and John Heard star in writer/director John Byrum's atmospheric portrait of the trio that march

As her new romance blossoms, a single mother is dismayed when her boyfriend, a military sergeant, is deployed right before Christmas. Determined to not let it ruin the holidays for her and her children, she decides to give back to the struggling military families on his base. As their efforts go viral, they are rewarded in ways they never imagined.

Arlette Lafron (Rogers) is a young pick pocket recruited by a corrupt foreign ambassador to steal a valuable watch from a wealthy and handsome young diplomat (Jean Pierre Aumont). Arlette not only bungles the job, but falls head over heels for her would-be victim. This entertaining remake of a popular French comedy stars such screen heavyweights as Basil Rathbone and Adolphe Menjou, was directed by Sam Wood (A Day At The Races and A Night At The Opera), and will have you thinking twice about your next European vacation!