Virginia Bruce is the daughter of a late Senator. Now she makes her living wearing clothes from shops who want to impress her rich and influential friends. James Ellison is the son of William B. Davidson, who works with Naval Intelligence. The Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbor, and Virginia Bruce is fired up about wanting to help out, but the pair of them are well educated, smart, and utterly useless. So when Aubrey Mather approaches Miss Bruce with an offer to work for the Secret Service, she agrees. But it soon becomes obvious to the audience that he is a spy for an unnamed enemy country. When he orders her to get Ellison to steal some of his father's key papers to see if he is the leak they're searching for....
It's a great idea for a movie, and it could easily work, but Miss Bruce is too ditzy, and Ellison is too patently a useless lout for far too long to make the audience invest much emotion in anything except wondering if and when they figure out what is going on. There's a war on, you know. With Sheila Ryan, Ralph Byrd, and Minerva Urecal.
It's a great idea for a movie, and it could easily work, but Miss Bruce is too ditzy, and Ellison is too patently a useless lout for far too long to make the audience invest much emotion in anything except wondering if and when they figure out what is going on. There's a war on, you know. With Sheila Ryan, Ralph Byrd, and Minerva Urecal.