An extremely cliched, humorless script results in a truly forgettable RKO programmer that for Lucy fans is a waste of time. She has one potentially great scene as a dance instructor who socks boyfriend Richard Dix and walks out, not even having any payoff from her fussy Franklin Pangborn like boss. Then out of the blue, Lucy's brother Allan Lane is wanted in connection with a murder, and reporter Dix goes out of his way to prove his innocence.
This film could have been done without Ball's character entirely and nobody would have even noticed the difference. In fact, you could have edited out a lot of things in this that in context of the main story makes no sense. A group of people being called out of the blue and given strange instructions is one montage that could easily have been scissors out.
Cy Kendall as a mobster and Donald MacBride as the frustrated detective don't add much. Dix making a bunch of phone calls pretending to be drunk adds to the confusion going on in this convoluted mess. After a while even the forced arguments between Ball and Dix become tiresome. Dorothy Lee, the female lead in the Wheeler and Woolsey comedies, pops up to obviously conclude her RKO contract, and it's easy to say in regards to that after seeing this, lucky her.
This film could have been done without Ball's character entirely and nobody would have even noticed the difference. In fact, you could have edited out a lot of things in this that in context of the main story makes no sense. A group of people being called out of the blue and given strange instructions is one montage that could easily have been scissors out.
Cy Kendall as a mobster and Donald MacBride as the frustrated detective don't add much. Dix making a bunch of phone calls pretending to be drunk adds to the confusion going on in this convoluted mess. After a while even the forced arguments between Ball and Dix become tiresome. Dorothy Lee, the female lead in the Wheeler and Woolsey comedies, pops up to obviously conclude her RKO contract, and it's easy to say in regards to that after seeing this, lucky her.