The third Pine-Thomas aviation film starts off strongly with some His Girl Friday style antics at a struggling airline - Richard Arlen is reluctant to marry Jean Parker but doesn't want her to marry anyone else etc.
This is bright and fun but then the film takes a detour and becomes about spies and a bomb prototype which doesn't really mesh with this other stuff because it's established Arlen's airline is crappy. I don't mind a serious detour but couldn't the airline have dovetailed into something more serious or tied in with honeymoon airline?
It moves fast, Arlen is fine and Parker good and the support cast includes Nils Asther and Marie Wilson. But it's an uneasy mix. Maxwell Shane and Richard Murphy are credited on the script and I wonder if they contributed to different things.
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