Wide Open Faces

Bank robber Stanley Fields has soda jerk Joe E. Brown drive him to a nearby abandoned hotel, then is caught and killed. From all around the nation, criminal gangs converge on the hotel, which is now owned and run by Jane Wyman and her aunt Alison Skipworth, Brown and Miss Wyman are sweet on each other, but when Lyda Roberti puts the moves on Brown, and the crooks start breaking up the hotel searching for the loot, sheriff Sidney Toler arrests Brown.

It's one of the Joe E. Brown movies produced by David Loew after he lured him away from Warners with offers of really big money. While the outline of the story is good, and Brown gets to do a lot of his shtick, it lacks much in the way of good lines, although Lucien Littlefield as Brown's boss gets one or two. With Alan Baxter, Berton Churchill, and Barbara Pepper.