Hugh Herbert (Hubert), Anne Gwynne (Kit), Robert Paige (Burnsy), Edward Ashley (Glen), Esther Dale (Aunt Fanny), Eily Malyon (Aunt Appleby), Ernest Truex (Handley), Helen Lynd (Miss Ames), Charles Smith (Bill), Romaine Callender (Dorsett), Boyd Davis (Driscoll), Harry Hayden (judge), Jan Wiley (girl announcer), Jack Arnold (announcer), Phil Tead (chauffeur), Grace Stafford (switchboard operator), Olaf Hytten (Fielding), Vicki Lester (Miss Parks), Emmett Lynn (scientist), Jane Cowan (freckled kids), Linda Brent (Chee Chee), Wilson Benge (butler), Heinie Conklin (scooter man), Pat Maier (girl reporter), Wilbur Mack (gallant reporter), Gene O'Donnell, Jack Gardner (reporters), Ralph Dunn, William Haade (doormen), Eddy Chandler, Charles Sullivan, Charles McMurphy, Frank O'Connor (policemen), Ralph Brooks, Kernan Cripps, Charles Sherlock (men), Fritzi Brunette, Vera Burnette, Gertrude Mack (women), Marie McDonald, Susan Miller, Elaine Morley, Nell O'Day, Kathryn Adams (girls).
Director: CHARLES LAMONT. Screenplay: Frances Hyland, Brenda Weisberg. Original story: Charles O'Neil, Duane Decker. Photography: Jerome Ash. Film editor: Philip Cahn. Music: Hans J. Salter. Art directors: Jack Otterson, Harold MacArthur. Set decorator: Russell A. Gausman. Costumes: Vera West. Sound recording: Bernard B. Brown, William Hedgcock. Associate producer: Ken Goldsmith.
Copyright 24 February 1942 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 1 May 1942. Australian release: 25 June 1942. 5,479 feet. 60 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A young man gets a job with his family's advertising agency. His first duty is to hire a big-game hunter for a radio show but problems arise when the hunter proves to be a fraud.
VIEWERS' GUIDE: Okay for all.
COMMENT: It's hard to work up much enthusiasm for Hugh Herbert's lame-brained bumbling in this Universal "B", despite his character's wonderfully grandiloquent cognomen, Hubert Abercrombie Gumm. The film has a promising background too, but all that emerges is a rather tepid farce, as clumsily directed as it is witlessly scripted.
Despite its remarkably huge cast line-up - especially for a "B" picture - only the delightfully statuesque presence of Anne Gwynne, plus Ernest Truex pulling out all stops as a harassed advertising executive, save this astonishingly over-packed with support players' effort from utter disaster.
Behind the camera technical credits are stolidly routine.
Director: CHARLES LAMONT. Screenplay: Frances Hyland, Brenda Weisberg. Original story: Charles O'Neil, Duane Decker. Photography: Jerome Ash. Film editor: Philip Cahn. Music: Hans J. Salter. Art directors: Jack Otterson, Harold MacArthur. Set decorator: Russell A. Gausman. Costumes: Vera West. Sound recording: Bernard B. Brown, William Hedgcock. Associate producer: Ken Goldsmith.
Copyright 24 February 1942 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 1 May 1942. Australian release: 25 June 1942. 5,479 feet. 60 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A young man gets a job with his family's advertising agency. His first duty is to hire a big-game hunter for a radio show but problems arise when the hunter proves to be a fraud.
VIEWERS' GUIDE: Okay for all.
COMMENT: It's hard to work up much enthusiasm for Hugh Herbert's lame-brained bumbling in this Universal "B", despite his character's wonderfully grandiloquent cognomen, Hubert Abercrombie Gumm. The film has a promising background too, but all that emerges is a rather tepid farce, as clumsily directed as it is witlessly scripted.
Despite its remarkably huge cast line-up - especially for a "B" picture - only the delightfully statuesque presence of Anne Gwynne, plus Ernest Truex pulling out all stops as a harassed advertising executive, save this astonishingly over-packed with support players' effort from utter disaster.
Behind the camera technical credits are stolidly routine.