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I tracked this movie down basically so I could see Pinky Tomlin doing a live version of "The Love Bug Will Bite You (If You Don't Watch Out)", his hit song from 1937. He performs it early on in the movie, and then The Brien Sisters do a reprise of it at the end. The plot is so simple it's ridiculous, but it's also amusing and just oozes "vintage B-movie" charm. It also oozes that "1937 Hollywood fantasy situation" type of thing that's just so glamorous in black-and-white. So what's an hour? The bad guys have a clever plot but the hayseed catches on and they get caught up in a web of their own making. It's quite simple and charming. Pinky is quite the game hayseed who is duped into falsely offering his particular talents, and the "Klondike Pete" type character is just right on the money. Yes I give it a five out of ten because it definitely ain't any higher, but that's also a glass half full, not empty.

Naive Pinkie Tomlin is a friendly hotel bellboy at a fine hotel who looses his job due to spending more time listening to customers than doing his job. A broke socialite sees this as a way of getting her fortune back and presents him as "a professional listener", for which she will record his clients and blackmail the spicy ones who definitely have something to hide. Tomlin catches on and tries to find a way out.

This is a mild musical comedy where a situation that could never happen is dramatized and presented to a not so gullible public. After all, wouldn't the American psychiatry association find this much like legal psychiatry or psychologically? Tossed in to pad out the running time is half a dozen specialities, most of little amusement. Tomlin does two musical numbers with better results.