Dull, unfunny, unromantic romantic comedy – if you think they make clunkers today, you should see this. For starters, it has a confusing premise – Robert Taylor is the black sheep of an aristocratic family just out of prison for some reason who, through some contrived set of circumstances, winds up as a pretend bailiff of impoverished widow Jean Harlow – he pretends to be her butler while she’s wooing her rich fiancée, who is his brother. Or something. It’s idiotic.
Taylor is unconvincing as a member of the British upper classes (he doesn’t look related to his brothers or mother), and he has nil comfort with Jean Harlow – allegedly charming scenes such as them having a pretend picnic together die. And Harlow seems miscast. Dreadful.
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