Gene Raymond and Nancy Carroll lead a large cast in this entertaining but sometimes confounding ocean liner mystery. There's a lot going on:
Con man Gene Raymond boards the ship and immediately sets his sights on Nancy Carroll as a likely target; predictably, their relationship grows into something more complicated than he planned. Gangster Sidney Blackmer is also aboard, blackmailing and threatening right and left. Police inspector Robert Elliot is on a holiday but finds himself quickly pressed back into service when a man is murdered two days into the voyage.
Jack Benny plays a radio personality in charge of entertainment on the ship; his little troupe puts on a show that offers an interesting glimpse of Benny early in his radio career (but distracts from the film's plot, such as it is)—a skit, a song or two, and a big dance production, Busby Berkeley style, that looks great.
Another subplot involves cranky old Ralph Morgan and his runaway wife Shirley Grey .everything kinds of ties together by the end, but I have to say that with all of the musical and comic interludes it's a bit hard to follow.
Very enjoyable and certainly not boring—but it kind of left me scratching my head.
Con man Gene Raymond boards the ship and immediately sets his sights on Nancy Carroll as a likely target; predictably, their relationship grows into something more complicated than he planned. Gangster Sidney Blackmer is also aboard, blackmailing and threatening right and left. Police inspector Robert Elliot is on a holiday but finds himself quickly pressed back into service when a man is murdered two days into the voyage.
Jack Benny plays a radio personality in charge of entertainment on the ship; his little troupe puts on a show that offers an interesting glimpse of Benny early in his radio career (but distracts from the film's plot, such as it is)—a skit, a song or two, and a big dance production, Busby Berkeley style, that looks great.
Another subplot involves cranky old Ralph Morgan and his runaway wife Shirley Grey .everything kinds of ties together by the end, but I have to say that with all of the musical and comic interludes it's a bit hard to follow.
Very enjoyable and certainly not boring—but it kind of left me scratching my head.