Ralph Graves and Lois Wilson star in this second rate comedy/mystery on the lines of "The Thin Man" movies where a starving secretary to a private detective gets her chance to eat when he invites her to a society party, and they end up finding a case with the discovery of a corpse, the father of the party's hostess. Together, with occasional interference by a rather dumb detective (James Burke), they come across more clues and suspects than they can handle, their antics only interrupted by a prank thrown at Burke's expense.
There are a few laughs here and there, but for the most part, this is your standard, color by numbers script with only a few thrills but little substance. Lola Lane of "Four Daughters" fame plays the society hostess and is rather bland. The banter between Graves, Wilson and Burke is amusing, but Burke's cop is too stupid to be believable. In fact, one joke at his expense indicates that detectives who can't read or write are at risk of loosing his job and that he might be able to get a job as a night watchman.
Some nice sets hide the cheap feel of the rush job put on the script, but ultimately, I have to mark this one as a dud in the many comic murder mysteries made in the mid 1930's.
There are a few laughs here and there, but for the most part, this is your standard, color by numbers script with only a few thrills but little substance. Lola Lane of "Four Daughters" fame plays the society hostess and is rather bland. The banter between Graves, Wilson and Burke is amusing, but Burke's cop is too stupid to be believable. In fact, one joke at his expense indicates that detectives who can't read or write are at risk of loosing his job and that he might be able to get a job as a night watchman.
Some nice sets hide the cheap feel of the rush job put on the script, but ultimately, I have to mark this one as a dud in the many comic murder mysteries made in the mid 1930's.
