Steel mill owner Raymond Walburn pays for the members of his old unit to go to the American Legion convention in New York. He asks Brian Donleavy and Victor McLaglen to do him a favor while there. His son, Robert Kellard, has fallen in love with a showgirl, and he wants them to stop. When they check in, they both put the moves on the hotel's singer, Gypsy Rose Lee (singing voice by Mary Martin) and decide to ask her to break up the romance by seducing Kellard. Meanwhile, Kellard asks her to pretend to be the girl he's in love with, and to present the actual girl, Lynn Bari, as an attractive alternative. Miss Lee agrees to Kellard's request, whereupon Donleavy and McLaglen try to woo her away by showering her with gifts paid for by Walburn. Confronted with the bills, Walburn flies out to New York, and the movie becomes confusing.
Director George Marshall -- with uncredited assistance by Allan Dwan -- has issues with this chaotic comedy. Donleavy and McLaglen are supposed to have a Quirt and Flagg relationship, but it just comes off as ill-willed. Miss Lee is stiff in her role, and while Walburn puts a lot of comic energy into his bits, particularly with secretary Jane Darwell, this one comes off as rather bloated. With Esther Muir, Hattie McDaniel, and Frank Moran.
