It's possible that I've been looking at so many poor movies over the last couple of days that anything decent looks great, but this is a terrific little B movie. William Gargan and Irene Hervey are freshly married and on the air flight from Bombay to Manila. Miss Hervey is upset with her groom because he's promised to give up being a roving reporter and get a desk job immediately; here he is working a story about a million dollars of diamonds that a maharajah is shipping to the US. She doesn't know he's doing it for his old boss in return for that promised desk job. The diamonds are on board, but so are a bunch of odd characters. When the diamonds turn up in Miss Hervey's luggage, and there's a corpse on board, things get considerably more interesting.
There are some unexpected twists, a lot of good humor, and an exciting and redemptive ending. Along the way there are some very good roles for Lloyd Corrigan, Turhan Bey, and even Mary Gordon, sporting as broad a Scots accent as she ever did. It's quite obviously a B movie from Universal shot on a total of three sets and one on the studio lot, but Universal knew how to stretch a dollar, and the script by Roy Chanslor, and Stanley Rubin plays to the cast's strengths. Director John Rawlins was never nominated for an Oscar, but he knew how to take a fanciful situation and get some chuckles and suspense out of it.
There are some unexpected twists, a lot of good humor, and an exciting and redemptive ending. Along the way there are some very good roles for Lloyd Corrigan, Turhan Bey, and even Mary Gordon, sporting as broad a Scots accent as she ever did. It's quite obviously a B movie from Universal shot on a total of three sets and one on the studio lot, but Universal knew how to stretch a dollar, and the script by Roy Chanslor, and Stanley Rubin plays to the cast's strengths. Director John Rawlins was never nominated for an Oscar, but he knew how to take a fanciful situation and get some chuckles and suspense out of it.