Hat, Coat, and Glove

Ricardo Cortez had been around for YEARS in the silent films... here he co-stars with Barbara Robbins, as husband and wife, Robert and Dorothea. When HE finds out that SHE's seeing other men ( we ARE still pre-code, so its ok to show this for another year or so...), then the poop hits the fan! Cortez is very happy, relaxed, ethereal. almost ghostly throughout. doesn't seem that upset over anything that happens. the wife is seeing the younger Jerry (John Beal), who is also seeing another girl of his own. keep an eye out for Margaret Hamilton in the courtroom, WAAAYYY before Wizard of OZ! the story moves pretty slowly. Cortez had been a pretty big name in the late 1920s and the 1930s, but he has a pretty cardboard performance in this one. very average for the time. When someone turns up dead, attorney Robert must figure out exactly what's going on. Directed by Worth Miner, one of the first things he had directed. and he only directed nine films. It's entertaining... very typical courtroom case from the 1930s. Very soon, the film code would come rushing in, and everything would be hot cocoa and marshmallows. Hamilton is the most exciting part of this one. ends on a strange note.. a bit anti-climactic.