Love and the Zeppelin

A young lady has been affianced to an elderly general by her upwardly mobile parents, but she isn't remotely interested in this chubby chappy with his elegant handlebar moustache. Instead, she is keen on a kindly young inventor who like most of them, makes nothing that ever actually works. With her wedding day looming, though, he is going to have get his thinking cap on else she is going to be lost to him forever whilst being unhappy for the rest of her own days. After quite a bit of banging from within his shed, out comes her beau atop a zeppelin which he proposes to rescue her in and then they can both sail off into the sunset happy ever after. Of course, some of this goes to plan but the old soldier isn't just going to give up his suit, and so armed with a revolver with a never ending supply of bullets he sets off in hot pursuit. I liked this. The simple style of the characterisations and loads of humour keeps this feature vividly and entertainingly flying along whilst it pokes a little fun at the norms of socially engineered marriages that put true love firmly at the bottom of the priorities list. The old general could have been a great role for Gert Fröbe, don't you think?