4/10
just okay but worth seeing for its pre-Code humor
7 July 2006
Warning: Spoilers
The story begins at a nightclub. A selfish and evil band leader found out that the flower girl at the club is about to inherit $2,000,000, so he asks her to marry him. At the same time, a short guy at the club also wants to marry her and a stranger (who is actually a lady in drag) also begin showing the flower girl a lot of attention! Wow, this rather ordinary-looking lady is thrilled at all the attention. Ultimately, though, she decides to marry the handsome band leader. However, at the last minute the guy finds out that the flower girl is NOT inheriting any money and he tries to run away--at which point her hillbilly-like family gives chase. This really didn't matter, though, because after they caught him and brought him back to the alter, they found that the girl had just wed the short guy instead and she is quite happy.

The part of the film that definitely would NOT have passed muster in Hollywood a couple decades later were the kissing scenes with the flower girl and the cross-dressing girl. The kisses were pretty prolonged and strongly suggested lesbianism--something they just wouldn't have allowed on film in later years. I thought these scenes were actually pretty innocuous, but times do change.

Overall, it's only a mildly funny or interesting movie short. Worth seeing but also imminently worth skipping.
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