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A typical melodrama in the old romantic style, this Ladies' Man's main attraction is a powerful trio in the leading roles: William Powell, Kay Frances, and Carole Lombard.

However, the quality of the cast is not enough to hide the limitations of the script. A Ladies' Man who lives off his mistresses and falls in love, ultimately becoming a victim of his own amorality.

A moralistic and tragic plot that echoes the great values of Romanticism, alteady at the time, more than outdated.

A curiosity for cinephiles thirsty for works lost in the depths of film history.

In wartime, Alexander Hall offers us a fable that appeals to the child within us all and seeks to instill a message of hope in adults hardened by the violence of armed conflict.

It is true that this fable does not leave as deep a mark as others, nor can it be considered a masterpiece of the genre. But that does not prevent it from captivating the viewer, possessing an ethical sense and conveying a feeling of change for the better, an uplifting and well-intentioned humanism.

It could well be a Disney film and even has an animated scene, so there is no doubt about that.

An appeal to the childlike imagination in each of us, very timely in 1944, but which is essentially eternal.

The Locked Door, a 1929 talkie from the early days of sound, has as its main attraction the fact that it was Barbara Stanwick's debut as a leading actress. Prior to that, she had only appeared, in a minor, uncredited role as a chorus girl, in a 1927 silent film called Broadway Nights.

Stanwick demonstrates the qualities that would make her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses, with no fewer than 153 credits in film and television between 1927 and 1986, a career spanning nearly sixty years, during which she received four Oscar nominations for Best Actress, which she never won. Some have called her the greatest actress never to win an Oscar. In return, she won an honorary Oscar in 1982, three Emmys, two Golden Globes (one of them honorary, the Cecil B. DeMille Award), and two Life Achievement Awards, awarded by the Screen Actors Guild in 1967 and by the American Film Institute, twenty years later, among dozens of other awards and nominations.

This film is a melodrama disguised as a police procedural, with the particularly strange aspect of having the "dead man" solve the crime, enlightening the police and bringing an end to the film, which still promised a complicated investigation.

With Rod la Roque playing the heartthrob/villain/victim, and William "Stage" Boyd and Betty Bronson in supporting roles, Zasu Pitts's always entertaining performance as the hotel switchboard operator stands out.