You just have to keep watching to find out what the hell this is about..... Well, it's an hour later and I'm still none the wiser but loved the trip. It's a pretty poor picture: lousy acting, lousy production but illogically I think I enjoyed it.
Get the feeling most of the cast were established comedians with whatever their characters were, shoehorned into the story. There was a trend in the 70s where seemingly every tv sitcom was transformed into a cinema film. This feels like an early prototype of a tv movie and Don Hope a 1930s equivalent to an actor-comedian-game show host might get a part in a big movie.
The two leads were big hopefuls of Chesterfield Pictures. Don Hope (tries too hard) and Joan Marsh (cut price Jean Harlow...but prettier in my opinion) made reasonable careers for themselves but the real winner from Chesterfield was director Richard Thorpe who must have impressed Mr Thalberg with this because he subsequently got the MGM gig where he stayed for decades.
This picture is more entertaining than in reality it should be. Like BIP's quota quickies, there's often a peal, albeit a misshapen, cloudy plastic one amongst all the rubbish with these 'poverty row' pictures as well and this might just be one of them?
