There's trouble in Paradise for Warren William. True, he's the CEO of a major railroad, plotting a consolidation of all the roads int he country. He's got a huge place, an adorable son in Dickie Moore, but he and wife Mary Astor have grown distant. He's still obviously in love with her, but she's distracted by society. So when burlesque star Ginger Rogers almost drowns in his pond -- or maybe it's a lake, or even an ocean -- he drives her back to her apartment and becomes distracted. Then her boyfriend/manager, J. Carroll Naish sees this as a chance to blackmail him. Miss Rogers objects, and there's a shootout in her apartment just as the merger is about to go through, and Naish winds up dead. William changes the setting so it looks like Naish shot Miss Rogers and then committed suicide, and leaves. But beat cop Sidney Toler spots William's car and his registration outside the building.
It's still early in the year, so the Production Code still hasn't fully taken hold, but there are indications of it here. For a Warner Brothers movie of the period, it's very sympathetic to William, who seems bored and lonely in the midst of magnificence. Mostly it's a well-done story of circumstances directed by Roy Del Ruth, one of Warners' workhorse directors of the period. With Andy Devine, Felix Gottschalk, and Robert Greig as -- surprise! -- the butler.
It's still early in the year, so the Production Code still hasn't fully taken hold, but there are indications of it here. For a Warner Brothers movie of the period, it's very sympathetic to William, who seems bored and lonely in the midst of magnificence. Mostly it's a well-done story of circumstances directed by Roy Del Ruth, one of Warners' workhorse directors of the period. With Andy Devine, Felix Gottschalk, and Robert Greig as -- surprise! -- the butler.