SPENCER TRACY does about as well as can be expected in the role of a braggart who spends money that he doesn't have and marries the prettiest girl in town, MADGE EVANS, who worships him before she learns about his true nature.
He seems to be an impractical man but the script has him conjuring up a "get rich quick" scheme that actually works in time for a happy ending.
CLARA BLANDICK (Dorothy's Aunt 'Em in THE WIZARD OF OZ) does another one of her grumpy old lady impersonations, treating her son-in-law with disdain up until the very end. GRANT MITCHELL does well enough as the baffled father.
But it's hard to find anything offbeat or unusual enough to bring some creativity into this time-worn tale taken from a stage play. It is, however, a good character study of a man who makes himself pretty obnoxious throughout the story with his bragging ways and take charge personality when it comes to business matter. Tracy is convincing but fails to make the fellow likable enough for Evans to care so much about him.
Passes the time, but nothing special. Remade and shaped into a Red Skelton comedy by MGM in 1946 with Marilyn Maxwell as the blonde girlfriend and faring only slightly better.
He seems to be an impractical man but the script has him conjuring up a "get rich quick" scheme that actually works in time for a happy ending.
CLARA BLANDICK (Dorothy's Aunt 'Em in THE WIZARD OF OZ) does another one of her grumpy old lady impersonations, treating her son-in-law with disdain up until the very end. GRANT MITCHELL does well enough as the baffled father.
But it's hard to find anything offbeat or unusual enough to bring some creativity into this time-worn tale taken from a stage play. It is, however, a good character study of a man who makes himself pretty obnoxious throughout the story with his bragging ways and take charge personality when it comes to business matter. Tracy is convincing but fails to make the fellow likable enough for Evans to care so much about him.
Passes the time, but nothing special. Remade and shaped into a Red Skelton comedy by MGM in 1946 with Marilyn Maxwell as the blonde girlfriend and faring only slightly better.