The last of the RKO series with Tom Conway shows signs of tiredness in its generic title and barebones Maguffin plot. Tom Conway and Eddie Brophy are planning to go on vacation. As I wondered "from what?", the answer came. "No dames!"
Indeed. No sooner had I wondered how long that resolution would last than up pops Madge Meredith as the daughter of a guy with a formula for industrial diamonds, which Conway agrees to shlep on the train for some reason or other, because there were other people who wanted the formula. So we spend the entire movie on stage in the series of train interiors that every studio kept two of, because that's how many of these they shot back then. Conway foils the baddies in the laziest way, and all ends well.
Except for Miss Meredith. The following year she was convicted of conspiring assault and kidnapping and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1951, the authorities decided she had been framed She was released and resumed her screen career, which extended into the early 1960s. She died in 2017, age 96.
Well, at least the movie, though the wispiest of trifles is fun.
Indeed. No sooner had I wondered how long that resolution would last than up pops Madge Meredith as the daughter of a guy with a formula for industrial diamonds, which Conway agrees to shlep on the train for some reason or other, because there were other people who wanted the formula. So we spend the entire movie on stage in the series of train interiors that every studio kept two of, because that's how many of these they shot back then. Conway foils the baddies in the laziest way, and all ends well.
Except for Miss Meredith. The following year she was convicted of conspiring assault and kidnapping and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1951, the authorities decided she had been framed She was released and resumed her screen career, which extended into the early 1960s. She died in 2017, age 96.
Well, at least the movie, though the wispiest of trifles is fun.