A whole group of familiar character players really put over this comedy about a small town mayor standing up to the public opinion in his town which is hell bent on investing the town's money in a summer resort being proposed by one of its former citizens. Fred Stone is the put upon mayor who is acting in the best tradition of Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.
Proposing the resort is Berton Churchill who has returned to the small town with his 'secretary' Paul Guilfoyle and wants to put in a summer resort. He's prosperous all right, Churchill and Guilfoyle have been putting over this and many other confidence rackets all over the country. Churchill is really superb in the part, he's like a descendant of Gatewood the banker from Stagecoach. He and Guilfoyle got the town drooling at the prospect of Quick Money.
Stone smells something fishy but he's up against public opinion. Even his wife Dorothy Vaughan is for Churchill. Fortunately daughter Dorothy Moore sides with her father and she's dating a budding Carl Bernstein in Gordon Jones. Jones and Stone's son Sherwood Bailey and the wonders he does with his chemistry set come in mighty handy.
There's a chase scene in the end that is hilarious. The wholesome values of common sense in small town America as personified by Fred Stone triumph in the end. As it always did in 1937. Stone and Churchill as a kind of yin and yang of good and evil really do a fine job in leading a great group of character players in this fine B feature from RKO.
Don't miss this if broadcast, it's a real sleeper.
Proposing the resort is Berton Churchill who has returned to the small town with his 'secretary' Paul Guilfoyle and wants to put in a summer resort. He's prosperous all right, Churchill and Guilfoyle have been putting over this and many other confidence rackets all over the country. Churchill is really superb in the part, he's like a descendant of Gatewood the banker from Stagecoach. He and Guilfoyle got the town drooling at the prospect of Quick Money.
Stone smells something fishy but he's up against public opinion. Even his wife Dorothy Vaughan is for Churchill. Fortunately daughter Dorothy Moore sides with her father and she's dating a budding Carl Bernstein in Gordon Jones. Jones and Stone's son Sherwood Bailey and the wonders he does with his chemistry set come in mighty handy.
There's a chase scene in the end that is hilarious. The wholesome values of common sense in small town America as personified by Fred Stone triumph in the end. As it always did in 1937. Stone and Churchill as a kind of yin and yang of good and evil really do a fine job in leading a great group of character players in this fine B feature from RKO.
Don't miss this if broadcast, it's a real sleeper.