I's a Grand-Hotel-on-Water movie in which crook Gene Raymond falls in love with entertainer Nancy Carroll, and has to save her from the coils of gangster Sidney Blackmer, while dodging card sharks and a detective. Jack Benny is also on hand to front the liner's acts and try to get his troupe out of scrapes.
It's a pleasant enough movie, but at 90 minutes, it seems to go on a bit long, what with occasional breaks for singing and sketches by Benny's troupe. It's an early, ambitious movie for producer Edward Small for United Artists, and seems to have done well with its combination of up-and-coming talent and paycheck-on-the-way down veterans. The music by Richard Whiting is not particularly distinguished, but it does hold the record for introducing the phrase "Rock and Roll" to the movies, as the title of a song performed by the Boswell Sisters.
It's a pleasant enough movie, but at 90 minutes, it seems to go on a bit long, what with occasional breaks for singing and sketches by Benny's troupe. It's an early, ambitious movie for producer Edward Small for United Artists, and seems to have done well with its combination of up-and-coming talent and paycheck-on-the-way down veterans. The music by Richard Whiting is not particularly distinguished, but it does hold the record for introducing the phrase "Rock and Roll" to the movies, as the title of a song performed by the Boswell Sisters.