This is really a very good, very funny comedy, thanks largely to James Cagney , who could evidently play any sort of role wonderfully. He's great here as a poor pilot trying to hold on to his plane.
The plot, to the extent that there is one, is yet another variant on *It Happened One NIght*, the story of a spoiled young heiress who is kept from marrying a playboy she doesn't really know well by some Average Joe who hopes to make a few bucks by bringing her back to her wealthy father. Gable is great in that role in the original , but Cagney is every bit as good in this knockoff.
Eugene Pallette gets the Walter Connolly role as the wealthy father, but it isn't developed as well here.
Unlike in *It Happened One NIght*, which was filmed in 1934, we don't get a chance to see the America of its time here, and that is a real loss.
But what we do get are some funny if obvious situations, and a very funny James Cagney. That's definitely worth watching the movie for.
The plot, to the extent that there is one, is yet another variant on *It Happened One NIght*, the story of a spoiled young heiress who is kept from marrying a playboy she doesn't really know well by some Average Joe who hopes to make a few bucks by bringing her back to her wealthy father. Gable is great in that role in the original , but Cagney is every bit as good in this knockoff.
Eugene Pallette gets the Walter Connolly role as the wealthy father, but it isn't developed as well here.
Unlike in *It Happened One NIght*, which was filmed in 1934, we don't get a chance to see the America of its time here, and that is a real loss.
But what we do get are some funny if obvious situations, and a very funny James Cagney. That's definitely worth watching the movie for.