This is a VERY slight film about a group of very spoiled and rich young people. It's set at a fictional elite college--much like a Harvard or Yale. The young men are mostly a bunch of vacuous idiots and much the same can be said about their girlfriends. As a result, it's a hard movie to like--even with its 'it's not so great being rich' moral lesson at the end.
The film begins with three drunk jerks from this college out slumming. One (Lew Ayres) meets a cute redhead (Lana Turner--before going permanently blonde later in 1939) and invites her to some big dance that ALL the girls want to attend. The problem is that Ayres has no recollection of this the next day and he's already got a date. When Turner shows up, the film is clear to show just how shallow and catty most of them are. Oddly, the only nice one among this group (Richard Carlson) never has much involvement with Lana--putting them together in the film would have made sense. Instead, you KNOW that by the end of the film Ayres would miraculously prove that he's really not an elitist and the two would find love. Frankly, I honestly didn't care by the end, as the film was so shallow and poorly written. Dull and not a whole lot of excitement here. The only slumming anyone is doing in this film relates less to class and more to the quality of the script.
The film begins with three drunk jerks from this college out slumming. One (Lew Ayres) meets a cute redhead (Lana Turner--before going permanently blonde later in 1939) and invites her to some big dance that ALL the girls want to attend. The problem is that Ayres has no recollection of this the next day and he's already got a date. When Turner shows up, the film is clear to show just how shallow and catty most of them are. Oddly, the only nice one among this group (Richard Carlson) never has much involvement with Lana--putting them together in the film would have made sense. Instead, you KNOW that by the end of the film Ayres would miraculously prove that he's really not an elitist and the two would find love. Frankly, I honestly didn't care by the end, as the film was so shallow and poorly written. Dull and not a whole lot of excitement here. The only slumming anyone is doing in this film relates less to class and more to the quality of the script.