Orson Welles tries to spread his wings playing the male lead in this wisecracking husband-and-wife detective tale; he isn’t very suited to this sort of humour, despite being well matched by Marie Wilson, who plays a ditz (she sends herself up as a ditz in real life at the end). Welles tries to modify his delivery for wise-cracking but it doesn’t really work; he was a different sort of comedian to Melvyn Douglas, who played the role on film (this was confirmed later when Welles took over another role originated by Douglas in Theodora Goes Wild).
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