There's scandal in the oil industry, and for two sisters (Ida Lupino and Gail Patrick), there's also scandal between them as Lupino is in love with Kent Taylor, the man Patrick seems to have stolen from her and married! But the materialistic Patrick is soon seeing another man on the side, and with the help of her hat manufacturer employer (Joseph Cawthorn), Lupino manages to get involved in big business, culminating in a fraudulent oil scheme that somehow connects brother-in-law Taylor and her sister's secret boyfriend (Sidney Blackmer). It's a convoluted plot with a messy script, some truly forced comedy (Cawthorn's cackle is nerve wracking), and a plot that goes into so many directions that even Google maps couldn't locate it. Lupino and Patrick are both good actresses but they deserve better than playing sisters who seem not only complete opposites but strangers as well. They pretend through their decent acting to know that they are sisters, but that is never quite believable. Pinky Tomlin, a comic actor I can take or leave, is harmless but annoying still, as Cawthorn's son, and Greta Meyer, as the matriarch of that family, seems to treat both husband and son as if they were still little children. Lupino, not looking anything like she would once settled in films as a femme fatale, does prove herself to be a smart girl, but it is too bad that she just didn't have a better film in which to be a genius.
2 Reviews
Thou shalt not covet thy sister's man...the question is, whose man was he in the first place?
mark.waltz15 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This was silly!
bjon1 December 2005
Here's a movie that I've been trying to get a hold of for quite some time. It's probably decomposed in its can. I saw it last when I was about 13 years old. I'm now 51. God love those Late Late Shows in the Summer, when I could watch all these old gems. I must confess that I'm writing this as I'm drawing from whatever memory I have of it, so there may be some inaccuracies.
It was a very funny movie, considering there were a few dark overtones; there was a girl who inherited nothing from her father when he died penniless (this is what I remember, anyway). Her sister takes away the man she loves, and the girl is primarily on her own.
What she does is land a job as presumably a clerk at the Krausemeyer Hat Co., where she befriends the owner. Through bit of perseverance and some talent on her own, she comes up with design ideas to add life to a rather staid company by adding some pizazz to the hat designs. Mr. Krausemeyer takes her under his wing, and she goes on to save the day. The marriage, by the way, of her sister and the man she loved takes some unpleasant terms.
Here, the main character turns adversity into a roaring success. Who couldn't get a kick out of it? Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era; I loved the humor in this one.
It was a very funny movie, considering there were a few dark overtones; there was a girl who inherited nothing from her father when he died penniless (this is what I remember, anyway). Her sister takes away the man she loves, and the girl is primarily on her own.
What she does is land a job as presumably a clerk at the Krausemeyer Hat Co., where she befriends the owner. Through bit of perseverance and some talent on her own, she comes up with design ideas to add life to a rather staid company by adding some pizazz to the hat designs. Mr. Krausemeyer takes her under his wing, and she goes on to save the day. The marriage, by the way, of her sister and the man she loved takes some unpleasant terms.
Here, the main character turns adversity into a roaring success. Who couldn't get a kick out of it? Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era; I loved the humor in this one.
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