In the Money

Arthur Hoyt has been able to provide very well for his son and three daughters on the dividends from the family chemical firm. When his checks start to bounce, daughter Lois Wilson works out that the company is in receivership. While her two sisters go about their hare-brained ways, brother Frank Coghlan Jr. Tries to win $500 in a motorcycle race. He winds up paralyziing his legs. Only an expensive operation can save him, and prospective brother-in-law Warren Hymer is scheduled to box for the championship, picking up $65,000 win, lose, or draw. Only Hymer refuses to fight any more. He wants to perform Shakespeare. Can manager Skeets Gallagher get him to do it?

This seemed to me a trial run for You Can't Take It With You, with most of the family without the peculiar ambitions of the Vanderhof menage. Miss Wilson carries most of the movie on her capable shoulders, and Gallagher plays very well opposite her. Director Frank Strayer manages some fun in the boxing match and the final scene that left me smiling. Louise Beavers appears in the first and last scenes.