It's only a hour long but what a long tedious hour! I can't think of any reason to watch this other than to gain an insight into what passed as light entertainment in the early thirties. Radio dramas were massive back then and this is essentially a radio drama with visual aids. To a 21st century audience however this is neither entertaining, interesting or fun.
OK, viewed purely academically, there is an interesting style to this. It's filmed to that same a frenetic fast pace which was typical of those old radio dramas but I'm not sure that style works in a motion picture. It looks quite good; there's a lot of nice fluid camera movement, rapid editing and very short scenes spliced together with interesting 'swish cuts' which add to the sense of speed director William Howard was trying to achieve. The acting is adequate but because it's all so fast and the characters aren't fully developed people, you can't really tell. You don't get to know the characters, there's no depth or development to any of them, they're just parts of the silly story.
OK, viewed purely academically, there is an interesting style to this. It's filmed to that same a frenetic fast pace which was typical of those old radio dramas but I'm not sure that style works in a motion picture. It looks quite good; there's a lot of nice fluid camera movement, rapid editing and very short scenes spliced together with interesting 'swish cuts' which add to the sense of speed director William Howard was trying to achieve. The acting is adequate but because it's all so fast and the characters aren't fully developed people, you can't really tell. You don't get to know the characters, there's no depth or development to any of them, they're just parts of the silly story.