A triangle romance for those who like their entertainment soft and easy on the brain, mildly luxurious to the eye. Miss Colbert has a part well within her range and looks most, most alluring in her Travis Banton nightwear (though her street costumes are sometimes faintly ludicrous). Mr MacMurray is his usual brash and somewhat unpleasant self while Robert Young plays the other man with his usual ease and quiet self-effacement. William Collier Sr manages the difficult feat of playing with conviction a character whose motives and actions are childish or eccentric. Collier makes his odd behavior seem perfectly natural. Edgar Kennedy provides some of his famous slow burns for an extended climax made necessary by cross-cutting to true love racing to the rescue. Other roles are small but competently played with Donald Meek contributing a memorable cameo as an angry judge.
The direction is unobtrusively smooth but routine. Tover's photography seems attractive and the art direction, as usual in Paramount pictures, is visually exciting, although it must be noted that the sets are not as large, varied, or lavishly appointed as usual and that in fact production values here stack up as comparatively rather moderate. Still the characters are likable and are given an occasional witty line, even though the story line hangs on very slight wings, has almost no development and a foregone conclusion.
OTHER VIEWS: Rather forced comedy, pivoting on a flimsy triangle story which has only the two or three promisingly comic ideas. In this typical Claude Binyon screenplay, these basic ideas are stretched mighty thin. Man, it's the dullest! And it's directed by Wesley Ruggles. He's dull too. Nice photography though! - J.H.R. writing as Tom Howard.
The direction is unobtrusively smooth but routine. Tover's photography seems attractive and the art direction, as usual in Paramount pictures, is visually exciting, although it must be noted that the sets are not as large, varied, or lavishly appointed as usual and that in fact production values here stack up as comparatively rather moderate. Still the characters are likable and are given an occasional witty line, even though the story line hangs on very slight wings, has almost no development and a foregone conclusion.
OTHER VIEWS: Rather forced comedy, pivoting on a flimsy triangle story which has only the two or three promisingly comic ideas. In this typical Claude Binyon screenplay, these basic ideas are stretched mighty thin. Man, it's the dullest! And it's directed by Wesley Ruggles. He's dull too. Nice photography though! - J.H.R. writing as Tom Howard.