Terrible British comedy with amateurish acting and handling. There are two interesting things about it - the cast and an unexpected dark undertone. Douglas Fairbanks Jnr pulls Laura La Plante out of the river after she's tried to kill herself following an unhappy love affair (this is treated comically); he looks after her which upsets his fiancee (Margaret Lockwood, very young). Lockwood dumps him so he heads to Monte Carlo to gamble - leading to some location filming.
I didn't know much about La Plante but she was fairly terrible. I like Fairbanks Jnr but the material defeated him. Lockwood was very green. This was heavy going although it did improve as it went on.
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