The "Our Gang" teacher ended the school year by throwing a picnic for the school children and bursting into tears when they schemed against her. No mamby pamby female Sally Eilers. She ends the school year by giving away the dozens of apples left for her, not enough time to make a pie, 'cause she's got a boat to catch. You see, Eilers needs to get away from her wimpy boyfriend (Grady Sutton) and find life and adventure abroad, with no questions of how a grade school teacher can afford such an excursion. On her first night, she dines with the sophisticated Thurston Hall and Marjorie Gateson, unaware that they are being watched for smuggling stolen money. Somehow Eilers ends up with the loot, and private detectives James Dunn and David Niven romance her to find out what she knows.
Amusing from start to finish, this screwball comedy with a touch of criminal intrigue is an absolute delight. If the pairing of Eilers and Sutton isn't bizarre enough, there's Hall and Gateson, as well refined as "Gilligan's Island" Thurston and Lovey Howell, yet delightfully crooked. Warren Hymer is amusing as their right hand thug who delights in taking baths in other passenger's staterooms. Franklin Pangborn, as the anti-alcohol bartender, is very funny in his two scenes, making a bunch of large seltzer water mixes in large gold fish type glasses for the hungover passengers. But as soon as Mischa Auer appears, the film is immediately stolen with his pop eyed, fractured English line delivery. This is a low budget B delight that is unique enough in its way to warrant discovery.
Amusing from start to finish, this screwball comedy with a touch of criminal intrigue is an absolute delight. If the pairing of Eilers and Sutton isn't bizarre enough, there's Hall and Gateson, as well refined as "Gilligan's Island" Thurston and Lovey Howell, yet delightfully crooked. Warren Hymer is amusing as their right hand thug who delights in taking baths in other passenger's staterooms. Franklin Pangborn, as the anti-alcohol bartender, is very funny in his two scenes, making a bunch of large seltzer water mixes in large gold fish type glasses for the hungover passengers. But as soon as Mischa Auer appears, the film is immediately stolen with his pop eyed, fractured English line delivery. This is a low budget B delight that is unique enough in its way to warrant discovery.