He offers the picture to a dealer in Florence for a paltry sum, but the American agent, who has been following him, now notifies the police, and he is arrested.

But he turns it down and sets out on a crazy journey to Italy with the painting strapped to a hurdy-gurdy. Although the police are up in the air about the robbery, an agent sent by an American millionaire to buy the painting ferrets out the thief and makes him a stupendous offer for the picture. But she does not believe that he is the thief and goes away with a traveling salesman. In order to do something to impress her, he steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. The girl is interested in him, as she believes him to be a rich young artist, but drops him immediately she finds out his real position in life. A new maid in the house opposite him has a very strong resemblance to the woman of the painting and the youth falls in love with her. And there is no lingering embrace to close the picture-the hero gets a jail sentence and the heroine a nice stinging moral slap in the face.Steals Mona Lisa.In detail, the story is this: A young Italian glazier living in Paris is commissioned to set glass over the Mona Lisa and is fascinated by the picture. The chief male figure is a sympathetic but very weak and sentimental young man, while the female is attractive but quite cold-hearted. All the more credit to the Superfilm that they let Walter Reisch's manuscript get through so completely intact.For in this 'Mona Lisa' film the 'hero' is no hero at all, and the 'heroine' is anything but that. So it usually comes out squashed back into one of the old formulas. But if a scenario writer proposes an original theme, it has to go through the mill of the scenario conferences, the objections of the production managers, the revisions of the director and the demands of the leading players. Actors occasionally have a few and directors are overstuffed with them. Not that there are not plenty of novel ideas displayed in the making of films. DER Raub der Mona Lisa' (The Theft of the Mona Lisa)-a moving picture with an original plot idea! The reaction of the critic is to rush out and call a meeting of earnest thanksgiving for this unique gift of the gods.

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