Believe it or not, this movie is a remake of the 1925 silent film of the same name. The silent is rarely seen and longer than this one by 15 minutes.
Compared to the silent, this sound version has much more star power as Irene Dunne is excellent in the movie. Charles Bickford is OK but not as good as Dunne.
The plot for the silent as well as this one is a steelworker striking it rich and heading for success only that he has a character flaw, a roving eye which makes him want a divorce from his lovely wife.
Of course after the abbreviated courtroom scene in this one, the only person who really gets any sympathy is Bickford as he sentences himself to jail. The less than 1 hour length of this makes it suffer in the character development department.
RKO put this one together in too hasty a fashion to be the under card of a double feature with a better film. Not really a film worth going out of the way for but TCM is now running it so you can judge it from the living room.
Compared to the silent, this sound version has much more star power as Irene Dunne is excellent in the movie. Charles Bickford is OK but not as good as Dunne.
The plot for the silent as well as this one is a steelworker striking it rich and heading for success only that he has a character flaw, a roving eye which makes him want a divorce from his lovely wife.
Of course after the abbreviated courtroom scene in this one, the only person who really gets any sympathy is Bickford as he sentences himself to jail. The less than 1 hour length of this makes it suffer in the character development department.
RKO put this one together in too hasty a fashion to be the under card of a double feature with a better film. Not really a film worth going out of the way for but TCM is now running it so you can judge it from the living room.