Summary
In the vibrant sprawl of 1920s Paris, Jimmy Clark, a man of more charm than sense, finds his heart hijacked by a chance encounter with Betty Perry at a train station. What begins as a desperate attempt to embed himself in the Perry family circle—marked by a disastrously explosive cigar gifted to Betty's father—spirals into a high-altitude nightmare of identity theft. Through a series of luggage-based mishaps, Jimmy is mistaken for the world-renowned mountaineer Roberts. Thrust into the Swiss Alps with gear he doesn't understand and a fear of heights he cannot hide, Jimmy is forced to maintain the charade when the real Roberts decides to treat the imposter's plight as a private joke. The farce reaches a literal peak as Jimmy, pursued by a disgruntled bear and dangling by a frayed rope, transforms into a literal human snowball, hurtling down the mountainside in a chaotic bid for survival and romantic validation.
Synopsis
Jimmy Clark and Algy Baker, two Americans in Paris, see John Perry and his daughter, Betty, at the train station. Jimmy, falling in love with Betty at first sight, makes the Perrys' acquaintance, inadvertently giving the elder Perry a loaded cigar and winning Betty's heart. A porter mistakes Jimmy for a famous mountain climber named Roberts and puts him on a trail with Roberts' gear. Arriving in the Alps, Jimmy is received as the noted climber, and, when the real Roberts appears, he laughingly backs up Jimmy's impersonation. Deathly afraid of heights, Jimmy is forced to climb a mountain, but, with some help from an unfriendly bear, he gets to the top. He lets himself partway down by a rope, which the bear then gnaws in two; Jimmy falls, gathering snow until he is a human snowball, bounding from crag to crag. He is then reunited with Betty, who tries to stop Jimmy's descent and becomes likewise entangled in the snowball.
