Just because it's on the script paper and ends up on the screen doesn't make it realistic, and it gets truly irritating to see spoiled rich girls getting away with the nonsense like Wendy Barrie does here without repercussions. This is the second such screwball comedy for Barrie and Gene Raymond, having been in the not much better "Love on a Bet" four years before. The plot was completely different, but still unrealistic and provided me with a few laughs. All this provided me with was a pain in the neck, feeling sorry for Raymond, stuck with a real pain in the neck who stows away in his trailer.
This is a bottom of the bill programmer from RKO where Barrie pulls a Claudette Colbert and runs off on her wedding day. You can see why she's as horrible as she is with the irritating Hedda Hopper as her mother. G. P. Huntley, as the idiotic fiancee, is a complete drip. Burton Churchill as one of two con-artists adds a blackmail subplot. The humor provided by Billy Gilbert as a greasy spoon propeietor on the road, is dated and corny, but he's the best thing in this. Screwball comedies had become a lot more sophisticated by 1940 with "His Girl Friday" and "The Philadelphia Story", so this feels quite lame in comparison.
This is a bottom of the bill programmer from RKO where Barrie pulls a Claudette Colbert and runs off on her wedding day. You can see why she's as horrible as she is with the irritating Hedda Hopper as her mother. G. P. Huntley, as the idiotic fiancee, is a complete drip. Burton Churchill as one of two con-artists adds a blackmail subplot. The humor provided by Billy Gilbert as a greasy spoon propeietor on the road, is dated and corny, but he's the best thing in this. Screwball comedies had become a lot more sophisticated by 1940 with "His Girl Friday" and "The Philadelphia Story", so this feels quite lame in comparison.