When the romance between radio-singer Eddie Blake and Bessie Dunn goes sour through a series of misunderstanding, Bessie packs to take a week-end trip with the station boss,Stephen Barclay, and Eddie proposes to Hazel, who appears to be open to any kind of proposal. With all of the principals involved and in the office elevator, a cable breaks and the elevator is suspended between floors.
Is it worth your time? If you like movies where everyone talks in that fast, clipped 1930s way and spends an hour being mad at people they probably shouldn't be dating, then sure. You'll probably hate this if you need a plot that moves faster than a turtle in mud, or if the idea of 'elevator-based romantic resolution' ...
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Ralph Murphy
Richard Smith
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"Is it worth your time? If you like movies where everyone talks in that fast, clipped 1930s way and spends an hour being mad at people they probably shouldn't be dating, then sure. You'll probably hate this if you need a plot that moves faster than a turtle in mud, or if the idea of 'elevator-based romantic resolution' makes you want to climb the walls. It’s a very specific kind of old-school fluff. The whole movie hinges on this ridiculous elevator accident. It’s the kind of contrivance that fe..."
Charles Sellon
Libbie Block, Kathryn Scola, Paul Gerard Smith
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