This 1936 comedy hails from Finland but it could just as easily have come from one of Hollywood's Poverty Row studios like RKO. The leads could easily have been Fred and Ginger, (yes, there are songs), or maybe Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea. It's a typical comedy of 'mistaken identity' where a young secretary needs to produce a husband in order to get a job. The guy she picks happens to be the best friend of her boss's son who's in love her. Things get even more complicated when the surrogate husband's paramour turns up.
It's well constructed but it's not very funny, (I doubt if it would be funny in any language), even if the cast give it everything they've got. Regina Linnanheimo is particularly good as the vamp and Hilja Jorma is excellent in the Billie Burke/Alice Brady role; indeed, it's even got a Mischa Auer lookalike. A curio but an entertaining one.
It's well constructed but it's not very funny, (I doubt if it would be funny in any language), even if the cast give it everything they've got. Regina Linnanheimo is particularly good as the vamp and Hilja Jorma is excellent in the Billie Burke/Alice Brady role; indeed, it's even got a Mischa Auer lookalike. A curio but an entertaining one.