Another behind the scenes view of movie making is a silly crime spoof about the irony of casting a real life organized crime King posing as an actor to play himself. Lee Tracy tones it down a bit (basically cutting down a few cups of coffee to come off as very hiper rather than extremely hiper) as a screenwriter who has written a script about a real life criminal known o only as "the hawk" and casting lookalike Bradley Page to play him. Little does he know that the real hawk has shown up and it's amusing to see how he reacts to his public calling him by the character name, thinking at first thar he's been exposed.
There's also acquaintances of Page's (ex-con Paul Guiilfoyle and Lee Patrick) who aided Tracy in creating the script. The movie within the movie is as much of a B programmer as this is, not really believable, but fun and fast moving. Joan Woodbury plays Tracy's love interest, a wannabee actress tied up in the intrigue, and there's also Tom Kennedy (Edgar's brother) as Page's not so bright hood sidekick and George Irving as a studio executive and a young Jack Carson as well.
The film culminates with the shooting of a film that Page crashes with real gun in hand, mistaking the filming for a setup for him being caught. Page, playing a dual role, walks off with the film, changing his heavy image to play the obvious ham actor, having a ball, and briefly playing off himself. Some cute ducks aren't as foul as the movie's realism. Strictly a bottom of the barrel programmer that won't strain the brain, but will be quickly forgotten afterwards.
There's also acquaintances of Page's (ex-con Paul Guiilfoyle and Lee Patrick) who aided Tracy in creating the script. The movie within the movie is as much of a B programmer as this is, not really believable, but fun and fast moving. Joan Woodbury plays Tracy's love interest, a wannabee actress tied up in the intrigue, and there's also Tom Kennedy (Edgar's brother) as Page's not so bright hood sidekick and George Irving as a studio executive and a young Jack Carson as well.
The film culminates with the shooting of a film that Page crashes with real gun in hand, mistaking the filming for a setup for him being caught. Page, playing a dual role, walks off with the film, changing his heavy image to play the obvious ham actor, having a ball, and briefly playing off himself. Some cute ducks aren't as foul as the movie's realism. Strictly a bottom of the barrel programmer that won't strain the brain, but will be quickly forgotten afterwards.