I'm still scratching my head over the choice of title for this picture; it doesn't really seem to relate to anything going on in the story. The eventual romance between Marcia Alden (Martha Vickers) and Greg Wilson (Dane Clark) never seemed very credible to me as they displayed no chemistry together, and Marcia never really objected to Carter Andrews' (Craig Stevens) marriage proposal, even when the countdown began to meet him in an hour on a cruise ship. It all seemed very disjointed to me.
I guess the treat here is catching Sydney Greenstreet in an uncharacteristic role fending off his wife and personal physician to have some fun in an assumed guise impersonating his gardener/chef Herman Brinker (Alan Hale). Not up to a life of ease in retirement, J.P. Alden (Greenstreet) buys into a service station with Wilson, and trades on his experience as an auto executive to tinker around as the mood strikes him.
That whole business with the Citizens Protective League and the phony planning commission seemed a bit forced. The scenario reminded me of dozens of Westerns of the era, and when the two 'inspectors' showed up at the 'Smiling Super Service' station, I had to wonder how a whole garage full of 'stolen' tires wound up in storage without Wilson ever knowing how they got there. Wouldn't he have been there the entire time he was running the place?
Well, the story's OK for some light entertainment but one could do better. The biggest kick I got out of the whole thing was how much it cost Marcia for a tank full at the gas station - $2.40 for a fifteen gallon fill-up! And to think, that was the most believable part of the picture!
I guess the treat here is catching Sydney Greenstreet in an uncharacteristic role fending off his wife and personal physician to have some fun in an assumed guise impersonating his gardener/chef Herman Brinker (Alan Hale). Not up to a life of ease in retirement, J.P. Alden (Greenstreet) buys into a service station with Wilson, and trades on his experience as an auto executive to tinker around as the mood strikes him.
That whole business with the Citizens Protective League and the phony planning commission seemed a bit forced. The scenario reminded me of dozens of Westerns of the era, and when the two 'inspectors' showed up at the 'Smiling Super Service' station, I had to wonder how a whole garage full of 'stolen' tires wound up in storage without Wilson ever knowing how they got there. Wouldn't he have been there the entire time he was running the place?
Well, the story's OK for some light entertainment but one could do better. The biggest kick I got out of the whole thing was how much it cost Marcia for a tank full at the gas station - $2.40 for a fifteen gallon fill-up! And to think, that was the most believable part of the picture!