This film starts out as pre-code as it gets. Dot (Sally Eilers) is a fashion model in a New York City where every man is as grabby as a certain current NYC-based politician and any woman on the street, in the subway or on the Staten Island ferry is bound to be subjected to ogling, groping, propositioning or worse. As a result Dot is a bit soured on men in general.
Eddie (James Dunn) is apparently the only straight man in NYC who behaves himself. He's a radio repairman back in the days before TV and computers when that was a serious career. He grew up in poverty and is determined to be financially secure before getting involved with women. You can guess what happens when Dot and Eddie get together, if we're to have any sort of plot to this movie, and you're right.
Thus the rapacity of other men becomes less part of the plot than a device to set Eddie apart. Once that's been accomplished, the film becomes more of a romantic comedy, save for accusations, apparently prevalent in that era, that any unmarried working-class woman was a "tramp" or "impure" or whatever else you'd like to call it.
Still, even as the film becomes less steamy, there are a few twists and turns, some more credible than others.
The title is misleading, but not nearly as much as the illustration in the movie's poster as seen here, which has absolutely nothing to do with the movie.
Eddie (James Dunn) is apparently the only straight man in NYC who behaves himself. He's a radio repairman back in the days before TV and computers when that was a serious career. He grew up in poverty and is determined to be financially secure before getting involved with women. You can guess what happens when Dot and Eddie get together, if we're to have any sort of plot to this movie, and you're right.
Thus the rapacity of other men becomes less part of the plot than a device to set Eddie apart. Once that's been accomplished, the film becomes more of a romantic comedy, save for accusations, apparently prevalent in that era, that any unmarried working-class woman was a "tramp" or "impure" or whatever else you'd like to call it.
Still, even as the film becomes less steamy, there are a few twists and turns, some more credible than others.
The title is misleading, but not nearly as much as the illustration in the movie's poster as seen here, which has absolutely nothing to do with the movie.