I had fun with this film.......it grows on you, probably because of the charm of the players. The story is light - an unmarried peer is being pushed into marriage by his grandmother and must try to arrange that all the eligible women on her list are married off to others in order to preserve his bachelorhood. Amid all of his machinations, he fails to recognize where love lies and all's well that ends well.
Roland Young is absolutely whimsical in the lead and is supported by a host of future stars and familiar faces......Merle Oberon (who would later marry the film's director Alexander Korda and attain stardom in Hollywood), John Loder, Wendy Barrie, and Maurice Evans. Morton Selten as Harry bringing violets to Kate Cutler as Young's soigne grandmother are a delightful couple who also end up at the altar. The upper classes are portrayed as a dithering lot of fatuous dunces but it is all in fun. It's a delightful excursion into early British comedy.
Roland Young is absolutely whimsical in the lead and is supported by a host of future stars and familiar faces......Merle Oberon (who would later marry the film's director Alexander Korda and attain stardom in Hollywood), John Loder, Wendy Barrie, and Maurice Evans. Morton Selten as Harry bringing violets to Kate Cutler as Young's soigne grandmother are a delightful couple who also end up at the altar. The upper classes are portrayed as a dithering lot of fatuous dunces but it is all in fun. It's a delightful excursion into early British comedy.