Child actor Leon Janney is lacking the spark for this role of a college age innocent heir who at one point wanted to be a priest yet got sidetracked by family issues and ultimately found sin more enticing than sainthood. First he falls in love with the much older newly introduced stepsister (Eleanor Hunt), then has a fling with nightclub hostess Wilma Francis. Apparently while making love to Francis, he called her by his step sister's name, whom he can't get off his mind.
You'd think that they would have found more of a story, but sadly that's all it is until he stranded with his stepsister on an island. Not really much of a plot and a very slow pacing. At times, this Monogram programmer really looks cheap (I recognized Janney's father's house set from the Bela Lugosi cheapy "The Invisible Ghost") then all of a sudden is glamorous and lush. Apparently filmed on location in Florida for the outdoors scenes, it must have rushed some indoor set scenes on the Monogram lot.
This is a complete waste of time for veteran comic actress Esther Muir who had stood her own against Wheeler and Woolsey and the Marx Brothers. She plays Hunt and Janney's stepmother, and only has a few scenes. Herbert Fisher is good as the head priest at the seminary Janney grew up in, and Fred Nielsey is fine in his brief screen time as Janney's father. Doris Blaine plays a pesky socialite that won't leave him alone. A very boring film, sadly this even lacks camp so it's just a bad movie that the audience would be lucky to make it through awake.
You'd think that they would have found more of a story, but sadly that's all it is until he stranded with his stepsister on an island. Not really much of a plot and a very slow pacing. At times, this Monogram programmer really looks cheap (I recognized Janney's father's house set from the Bela Lugosi cheapy "The Invisible Ghost") then all of a sudden is glamorous and lush. Apparently filmed on location in Florida for the outdoors scenes, it must have rushed some indoor set scenes on the Monogram lot.
This is a complete waste of time for veteran comic actress Esther Muir who had stood her own against Wheeler and Woolsey and the Marx Brothers. She plays Hunt and Janney's stepmother, and only has a few scenes. Herbert Fisher is good as the head priest at the seminary Janney grew up in, and Fred Nielsey is fine in his brief screen time as Janney's father. Doris Blaine plays a pesky socialite that won't leave him alone. A very boring film, sadly this even lacks camp so it's just a bad movie that the audience would be lucky to make it through awake.