Jeanne Madden gets a job singing on J. Carroll Naish'sgambling ship. It gradually becomes clear that he has a profitable sideline in smuggling.
Sometimes I worry that I've trained myself to see the infelicities in great movies and the small redeeming points in bad movies. Writing as many reviews as I do, straining to find something interesting to say, must distort my take on them. I write this because with Hamilton McFadden as director and the sort of plot that had already been done a hundred times, how good could this be?
Yet Republic Studios was very ambitious in this period, and I enjoyed this movie; not just for the couple of good songs Miss Madden sings, but because the cast is a very good one, and they each of them get to shine for a brief period. There's Warren Hymer and Penny Singleton, Joyce Compton -- she's a favorite of mine -- Bryant Washburn, Christine McIntyre, Dewey Robinson, and Asta the Dog from the Thin Man series (here credited properly as 'Skippy').
This movie won no awards, nor did it deserve to. But there were enough good moments to please me.
Sometimes I worry that I've trained myself to see the infelicities in great movies and the small redeeming points in bad movies. Writing as many reviews as I do, straining to find something interesting to say, must distort my take on them. I write this because with Hamilton McFadden as director and the sort of plot that had already been done a hundred times, how good could this be?
Yet Republic Studios was very ambitious in this period, and I enjoyed this movie; not just for the couple of good songs Miss Madden sings, but because the cast is a very good one, and they each of them get to shine for a brief period. There's Warren Hymer and Penny Singleton, Joyce Compton -- she's a favorite of mine -- Bryant Washburn, Christine McIntyre, Dewey Robinson, and Asta the Dog from the Thin Man series (here credited properly as 'Skippy').
This movie won no awards, nor did it deserve to. But there were enough good moments to please me.