Hoping to nab a gang of jewel thieves, a government agent poses as a crook and travels across the country with a female thief.Hoping to nab a gang of jewel thieves, a government agent poses as a crook and travels across the country with a female thief.Hoping to nab a gang of jewel thieves, a government agent poses as a crook and travels across the country with a female thief.
Georges Renavent
- Monetta
- (as George Renevent)
Robert Adair
- Constable Cummings
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaMGM executive E.J. Mannix chastised cinematographer James Wong Howe for filming Myrna Loy with mussy hair when she awakens at John Qualen's house, since MGM spent millions glamorizing their star. The scene is in the Turner library print.
- GoofsThe doctor shows up at the remote farmhouse carrying just the typical doctor's bag. However, after the birth, both Vivian and the doctor appear wearing surgical caps and full-length gowns.
- Quotes
Ross 'Mac' McBride aka Danny Ross Ackerman: Will you quit worrying about those guys? You'd think you were traveling with a cripple or an interior decorator!
- ConnectionsReferenced in Hollywood Hist-o-Rama: Myrna Loy (1961)
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It's a very complicated story about cross and double-cross. Spencer Tracy is an undercover cop masquerading as a crook. He picks up Myrna Loy to lead him to the the mugs who have stolen some very expensive pearls. She makes him immediately, and tries to use him to throw off the tails. What she doesn't known is that she is carrying the pearls herself.
Sam Wood directs for romance rather than laughs, and it doesn't quite work. Tracy is not a romantic lead, no matter how James Wong Howe lights the leads. Apparently this was intended as a role for William Powell, and you can see the sort of romantic lushness that would have echoed ONE-WAY PASSAGE, but second-rate hotels in Kansas City, whether it's Kansas or Missouri, don't do much for the ambience, nor does Tracy spending much of show talking slang out of the side of his mouth help, no matter how beautiful Miss Loy is.
Sam Wood directs for romance rather than laughs, and it doesn't quite work. Tracy is not a romantic lead, no matter how James Wong Howe lights the leads. Apparently this was intended as a role for William Powell, and you can see the sort of romantic lushness that would have echoed ONE-WAY PASSAGE, but second-rate hotels in Kansas City, whether it's Kansas or Missouri, don't do much for the ambience, nor does Tracy spending much of show talking slang out of the side of his mouth help, no matter how beautiful Miss Loy is.
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- Aug 29, 2022
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- Unexpected Bride
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- Budget
- $238,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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