Norman Krasna’s famous farce – a rare pro-union film from Hollywood - is given bright treatment by Lux – although Charles Coburn was excellent in the film, Frank Morgan is very well cast (perhaps not as scary as Coburn), and Linda Darnell acquits herself well in the Jean Arthur role (she was no Jean Arthur but she could be lively and she is here).
Some guy called Garret Oliver or Oliver Garret or Oliver someone plays Robert Cummings; they remove the Spring Byington plot and the sequence where Morgan/Coburn is arrested. Krasna’s structure remains a delight. Morgan is a rich man who goes undercover to find out who is leading industrial dissent against him; he finds himself adopted as an example of capitalist exploitation by Darnell who brings him to the attention of her unionist boyfriend; the macguffin in the third act is the list of names of employees who want to join a union. Funny and lots of fun; unlike a Lux version of Bachelor Mother this is fast paced.
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