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When her father throws himself into the river, skinflint bookie Adolphe Menjou finds himself in charge of Shirley Temple.

Fox Films was learning how to write a vehicle for Miss Temple, but still lending her occasionally to Paramount, which landed her in this movie at exactly the right moment. There are bits that are still pre-code, and a good cast under Alexander Hall in the third movie made from a Damon Runyon story, filled with weird-talking, sentimental lowlifes who can still turn violent. Leading lady Dorothy Dell seems to grow younger as the movie progresses. It was her third of four movies; alas, she was killed in a road accident a week after this movie was released. She was only 19.

With Charles Bickford, Lynn Overman, Frank McGlynn Sr, Willie Best, and Warren Hymer.