This sentimental but endearing 1931 Radio film was based on a successful 1914 Broadway play by the writer/actor Frank Craven, best remembered now as the Stage Manager in both the play and film of Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN. Bert Wheeler, here for once without his long-time comic partner Robert Woolsey, is perfectly cast in the Harold Lloyd mode as an All-American nice guy. He is partnered with the ever-adorable Dorothy Lee, his co-star in many an RKO film to come. They are, as always, delightful and believable together; one is only disappointed that they do not break out into song and dance as they did in many a W&W RKO feature. They are surrounded here by a cast of small-town character actors, foremost of all, the excellent Robert McWade as Uncle George. Although McWade would go on working for another seven years, he was never given a part as good as this again. He would have made a superb Frank Capra bad guy, but others more famous got those parts instead.
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