Practically every gag from every classic screwball comedy (from "It Happened One Night" to "My Man Godfrey" to "Bringing Up Baby") is ripped off in this RKO "B" bottom of the barrel time filler where a society wedding leads to the bride's sister's running off with a reporter posing as a photographer. While zany characters are essential in screwball comedy, the zaniness of these characters simply isn't at all believable, so totally forced that practically everybody seems like a cartoon character, from the pompous father of both bride and sister to the jail cell inmates and guards, to even a brief appearance by none other than Franklin Pangborn.
The wacky sister of the bride (who simply runs off for her honeymoon with the groom, disappearing from the film altogether) is played by Betty Furness who takes the Claudette Colbert/Carole Lombard/Jean Harlow/Jean Arthur/Ginger Rogers character that we've seen a million times (with better scripts) to the extremes, while the reporter hero is the obscure Gordon Jones who carries around a small cage with a carrier pigeon. He's certainly no Joel McCrea/Fredric March/William Powell/Clark Gable, and the situations which get him and Furness locked up continuously are outrageously absurd. It's obvious that the sets are fresh from a Fred/Ginger musical and that gives the impression that it was made on a higher budget, but its barely hour long running time instantly defuses that assumption.
The wacky sister of the bride (who simply runs off for her honeymoon with the groom, disappearing from the film altogether) is played by Betty Furness who takes the Claudette Colbert/Carole Lombard/Jean Harlow/Jean Arthur/Ginger Rogers character that we've seen a million times (with better scripts) to the extremes, while the reporter hero is the obscure Gordon Jones who carries around a small cage with a carrier pigeon. He's certainly no Joel McCrea/Fredric March/William Powell/Clark Gable, and the situations which get him and Furness locked up continuously are outrageously absurd. It's obvious that the sets are fresh from a Fred/Ginger musical and that gives the impression that it was made on a higher budget, but its barely hour long running time instantly defuses that assumption.