Truly a pretty rotten comedy from PRC, this programmer has absolutely nothing going for it except one dimensional characterizations, a horrible screenplay, veteran stars who shouldn't be playing romantic leads and an absurd situation that if it had been at least stupid would have been fun to laugh at. Neil Hamilton, once a matinee Idol of silent movies and early talkies, is cast as a bon vivant who discovers that he may be a multimillionaire and finds himself in a situation with two different women of different temperaments, one whom he loves and one whom he abhors.
June Lang, Joyce Compton and Barbara Read are just three of the women in Hamilton's life, and in trying to figure out which one fits where, I realized I just didn't care. Somehow, on a extremely low budget, PRC managed to make some of their films look sophisticated, what's the editing and action makes this move at a snail's pace, so any attempt at comedy completely fails. Hamilton also is very dull as a comic, and while he later was able to do that as a character actor, he fails miserably here. Hard to believe that he once appeared opposite some of the great early screen greats like Crawford and Garbo. A slapstick ending comes too late with the cast trying too hard to make up for lost time for the previous boring hour the audience had just suffered through.
June Lang, Joyce Compton and Barbara Read are just three of the women in Hamilton's life, and in trying to figure out which one fits where, I realized I just didn't care. Somehow, on a extremely low budget, PRC managed to make some of their films look sophisticated, what's the editing and action makes this move at a snail's pace, so any attempt at comedy completely fails. Hamilton also is very dull as a comic, and while he later was able to do that as a character actor, he fails miserably here. Hard to believe that he once appeared opposite some of the great early screen greats like Crawford and Garbo. A slapstick ending comes too late with the cast trying too hard to make up for lost time for the previous boring hour the audience had just suffered through.