" Deeds has already noticed he annoyances: "The strangest kind of people - salesmen, politicians, moochers, all want something.The Thief watched a royal procession or parade through he streets, and cried out the familiar beggar""s request for help: "Alms! O ye merciful! Alms!" As the procession passed, he rolled under the open litter transport held up by porters, clung o its under-carriage, and removed a ring from the extended hand of the unaware carriage""s occupant.In their dance series, this feel-good film of the Depression-era has usually been regarded as the one with Ginger Rogers"" best, most fluid performance.]This pretentious, overwrought film was plagued with a stormy production history, mostly involving a conflict between he over-controlling Selznick and famed silent film director King Vidor.