This is an enjoyable but flat screwball comedy that unfortunately doesn't resolve certain plot elements in it's our long-running time. Wealthy Hugh O'Connell is trying to keep his footloose heiress daughter Ann Sheridan from running off and eloping with her latest loser conquest and sicks alleged handsome hobo Craig Stevens on her to stop that from happening. Sheridan is another variation of Kate from "Taming of the Shrew", certainly not a man hater, but filled with a fiery temper that gets more furious when she cannot get her way. Sheridan goes along with her father's scheme just to teach him a lesson, inviting Stevens up to her room, but after an argument, she's throwing pretty much everything on her vanity at him in a rage. How does Stevens react to this? He simply picks her up and drops her violently onto her daybed, and she's so incensed by his not falling under her spell that she breaks out into a crying fit that she has never done in her entire life.
Papa O'Connell is impressed by Stephens and hires him to write advertising copy which Sheridan dismisses as horrible. His claim that he's actually the son of a Boston millionaire is falsely disproved when Sheridan makes a call, and this leads him to be fired. But Sheridan, quickly realizing her mistake, gets O'Connell to go on a chase to bring him back and pretty much leads them both into more comic mayhem that may just indeed tame her. we get to see what life for a well-dressed, handsome hobo is like, as he rides literally on the wheels of a train while O'Connell and Sheridan try to get him to meet them at the next station.
Of course, this is inconsequential and frivolous, but there are certainly many moments where you will be laughing at everything going on. Stevens and Sheridan are young, attractive and filled with personality (although Sheridan does manage to make her spoiled heiress reined in when she begins to get out of control), but for some reason I could not buy Hugh O'Connell as a wealthy entrepreneur. He seems like he would be more a bank clerk than the head of a big corporation. It is obvious that this film was rushed out on one of the Warner Brothers big mansion sets, probably taking a week or two to film then edit and get a quick release rather than the months of their big budget films. I can't praise it, but I can't condemn it either.
Papa O'Connell is impressed by Stephens and hires him to write advertising copy which Sheridan dismisses as horrible. His claim that he's actually the son of a Boston millionaire is falsely disproved when Sheridan makes a call, and this leads him to be fired. But Sheridan, quickly realizing her mistake, gets O'Connell to go on a chase to bring him back and pretty much leads them both into more comic mayhem that may just indeed tame her. we get to see what life for a well-dressed, handsome hobo is like, as he rides literally on the wheels of a train while O'Connell and Sheridan try to get him to meet them at the next station.
Of course, this is inconsequential and frivolous, but there are certainly many moments where you will be laughing at everything going on. Stevens and Sheridan are young, attractive and filled with personality (although Sheridan does manage to make her spoiled heiress reined in when she begins to get out of control), but for some reason I could not buy Hugh O'Connell as a wealthy entrepreneur. He seems like he would be more a bank clerk than the head of a big corporation. It is obvious that this film was rushed out on one of the Warner Brothers big mansion sets, probably taking a week or two to film then edit and get a quick release rather than the months of their big budget films. I can't praise it, but I can't condemn it either.