Edward Everett Horton leads a clockwork life. Shopkeepers set their clocks by him as he walks every day to the office where he works for Berton Churchill. He and secretary Karen Morley are in love, but he does not feel he can marry her on $40 a week. Finally, he is persuaded to ask for a raise after 18 years. Churchill tells him that he can get a younger man for $30 a week. When Miss Morley's sister, Rosina Lawrence, and Churchill's son, Glen Boles, fall in love, Churchill tries to block their romance.
It's a comedy, yes, but it's a structural comedy, certainly not what would be called a funny comedy. Horton is fine as the fussy little man in this movie, a man who picks up pins on the street and is swindled into buying worthless property by Alan Dinehart under the direction of George Marshall. The cast makes it continually watchable, but it's rather painful to watch, waiting for the worm to finally turn.
It's a comedy, yes, but it's a structural comedy, certainly not what would be called a funny comedy. Horton is fine as the fussy little man in this movie, a man who picks up pins on the street and is swindled into buying worthless property by Alan Dinehart under the direction of George Marshall. The cast makes it continually watchable, but it's rather painful to watch, waiting for the worm to finally turn.