Review of Rings on Her Fingers

This little film, with a great cast of Spring Byington, Henry Fonda, and Gene Tierny, is about a bunch of con artists and an honest man. It's full of surprises and neat little touches and bits of dialog. Everyone is at their best, even the normally somewhat annoying Gene Tierney, who plays a shop girl posing as an heiress. The plot's twists and turns extend to the very last scene. And Spring Byington is quite good. Henry Fonda plays the hero as an honest accountant who scrimps and saves to buy a boat, but is conned out of the money by Byington and Tierney posing as mother and daughter. By the end he is also seduced by dreams of great wealth, ill gotten, and becomes a gambler with a system. Creiger, who died tragically while in his twenties, gives a great performance as a member of the gang. The film reminds me a bit of Preston Sturgis, particularly the Lady Eve. Worth a watch!