Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy..
Is it worth the watch? If you love 1930s screwball comedies where everyone talks at 100 miles per hour and people get slapped for no reason, you’ll probably find something to like here. If you’re looking for a tight, logical plot, keep walking. This movie is a total mess, but it’s a shiny, Barbara Stanwyck-shaped mess....
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"Is it worth the watch? If you love 1930s screwball comedies where everyone talks at 100 miles per hour and people get slapped for no reason, you’ll probably find something to like here. If you’re looking for a tight, logical plot, keep walking. This movie is a total mess, but it’s a shiny, Barbara Stanwyck-shaped mess. Barbara Stanwyck is, as usual, the only reason anyone is still watching this thing eighty years later. She plays a Texan heiress who decides that fixing a broke, alcoholic playbo..."
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