Rodney (Dennis Morgan) meets and falls in love with Juliet (Shirley Ross). But on their wedding day, Rodney is attacked and bashed over the head with a blackjack. When he awakens, he has no memory of the past. And, in the meantime, the crooks push his car into the sea and he's assumed to be dead. So, he's declared dead and he wanders about a bit until eventually he follows the one lead he finds in his possession...the name of a woman in South Carolina. This woman (Jane Wyatt) is the cousin of Rodney's wife...but when he meets her, he has no idea he's been married. After about a year, the pair marry....and Juliet is about to remarry. Rodney and his new bride arrive at Juliet's house for the wedding....and, not surprisingly, the house is up in arms with his arrival. Oddly, they don't confront him about already being married to Juliet. Instead, the servants think he could be a ghost and the first wife thinks he has some sort of amnesia or psychological problems. Regardless, folk behave so weirdly around Rodney that he and his new bride think that Juliet and her household are a bunch of nuts! Where does all this go? See the film.
The notion of a person losing their memory after a bad blow to the head is very possible. But it's also VERY unlikely to be permanent but only short term. For permanent or long-term amnesia, it would actually require some significant brain damage...the type that would get you hospitalized for a very LONG period. So, my advice is to take it all with a grain of salt....just accept the plot and don't question how logical (or illogical) it all is! If you can do so, the film is quite entertaining....and a bit silly.
While the film stars mostly second and third-string actors and has a plot that seems like a B-movie, it isn't, as the movie clocks in at 82 minutes...the length of an A picture. Maybe it should be seen as an A- film, as Dennis Morgan was a mostly unknown actor back in 1941 and the cast is pretty much a B cast.
So is it any good? Well, it has a plot that makes little sense...especially since if they think he has amnesia (which he clearly does). Why don't they just tell him this and let him know the truth??? This would work....but would also limit the movie to about 20 minutes! So, it's best to turn off your brain and just enjoy it for what it is. And, you really have to because what Juliet and her friends do...well, it's also totally screwy and is the sort of thing that ONLY happens in movies.
The notion of a person losing their memory after a bad blow to the head is very possible. But it's also VERY unlikely to be permanent but only short term. For permanent or long-term amnesia, it would actually require some significant brain damage...the type that would get you hospitalized for a very LONG period. So, my advice is to take it all with a grain of salt....just accept the plot and don't question how logical (or illogical) it all is! If you can do so, the film is quite entertaining....and a bit silly.
While the film stars mostly second and third-string actors and has a plot that seems like a B-movie, it isn't, as the movie clocks in at 82 minutes...the length of an A picture. Maybe it should be seen as an A- film, as Dennis Morgan was a mostly unknown actor back in 1941 and the cast is pretty much a B cast.
So is it any good? Well, it has a plot that makes little sense...especially since if they think he has amnesia (which he clearly does). Why don't they just tell him this and let him know the truth??? This would work....but would also limit the movie to about 20 minutes! So, it's best to turn off your brain and just enjoy it for what it is. And, you really have to because what Juliet and her friends do...well, it's also totally screwy and is the sort of thing that ONLY happens in movies.