A fabulous cast - Edmund Lowe, Claire Trevor, Tom Brown and Adrienne
Ames at their best, a breezy plot with a sprinkling of wisecracks. Ames
shows that she would have made a terrific leading lady - not just a
sizzling femme fatale!! Here she is Milly, a compulsive thief who confesses
to love sick Fred Curtis that it was she who stole the Countess's
pearls and far from falling hopelessly in love with him, she saw him as a
dupe who could be easily persuaded to take the pearls through customs
Fred (the always likable Tom Brown) is out of his depth with both her and his clumsy attempts to recoup his losses at the gambling table. His discomfiture is observed by a gentleman gambler Jack Dugan (Edmund Lowe) and pretty Janette (gorgeous Claire Trevor) - they both feel for him and think he is being fleeced by two wily professionals (Eugene Pallette and Jed Prouty). Along the way Jack realises that Fred is his son who he has not seen since Fred was a baby, kept apart by his steely mother in law. Lowe had a patent on these suave, slightly shady characters and now, along with Janette comes in and plays the two card sharps at their own game. He then has to somehow extricate those pearls from a unsuspecting Milly.
Claire Trevor progressed in leaps and bounds - from bland blonde ingenue to a sparkling cutie who is no pushover here!!
Very Recommended
- or she would tell about his gambling debts!! Nice girl - not!!
Fred (the always likable Tom Brown) is out of his depth with both her and his clumsy attempts to recoup his losses at the gambling table. His discomfiture is observed by a gentleman gambler Jack Dugan (Edmund Lowe) and pretty Janette (gorgeous Claire Trevor) - they both feel for him and think he is being fleeced by two wily professionals (Eugene Pallette and Jed Prouty). Along the way Jack realises that Fred is his son who he has not seen since Fred was a baby, kept apart by his steely mother in law. Lowe had a patent on these suave, slightly shady characters and now, along with Janette comes in and plays the two card sharps at their own game. He then has to somehow extricate those pearls from a unsuspecting Milly.
Claire Trevor progressed in leaps and bounds - from bland blonde ingenue to a sparkling cutie who is no pushover here!!
Very Recommended