Young had eloped with Grant Withers the year before this production. This perhaps exploits the factual although implausible that Fairbanks Jr., would be so enthralled. However everything here is implausible, which is the point. The hero breaks up a wedding to claim the bride. Romance defeats finance as would be a theme in the 30s. Young could play powerful roles while still a teenager, here she is 18, but this is Fairbanks Jr.'s movie. He is not stopped by the roadblocks. The hypothetical Central American setting helps because If this had been set in the US the economic and class issues could not have been so readily dispensed with. The movie goer in 1931 gets some momentary relief from reality.
Review of I Like Your Nerve
