Jameson Thomas is a lawyer, always hard at work, which annoys wife Sally Blane. Because she worries about him. When his brother, Anthony Bushell, drops in from his world travel to visit, she hopes he'll get her husband to spend some time away from the grind of work. What they don't know is that Bushell hasn't been traveling around the world. He's been in prison for kiting checks, where he found that his room mate, Walter Long, intends to kill Thomas as soon as he gets out. Can Bushell protect his brother without letting hm know he's a crook?
It's a nice idea, and there are some interesting performers here, like Thomas Jackson as Bushell's sidekick, Carmelita Geraghty as he woman, and so forth, but director Richard Thorpe handles the entire movie very flatly, the dialogue handled very slowly, so deliberately that it made me wonder what the uncredited editor was thinking of. Perhaps it was that this came in at less than an honor, even at its slow pace.
It's a nice idea, and there are some interesting performers here, like Thomas Jackson as Bushell's sidekick, Carmelita Geraghty as he woman, and so forth, but director Richard Thorpe handles the entire movie very flatly, the dialogue handled very slowly, so deliberately that it made me wonder what the uncredited editor was thinking of. Perhaps it was that this came in at less than an honor, even at its slow pace.
