Summary
A Manhattan marriage, still fragrant with rice-thrown joy, curdles into midnight suspicion when Robert Ellis discovers his bride vanished; he dispatches his boon companion Pat Murphy on a truffle-hunt for infidelity. Pat, equal parts gumshoe and gadfly, storms the gilded corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria, collaring an Edna Ellis who answers to the missing wife’s name and silhouette. In a flourish of misguided chivalry he abducts her, dragging her back to Robert like a cat with the wrong canary. Before the champagne of victory can be uncorked, the genuine Mrs. Ellis glides through the front door, eyes blazing at the doppelgänger in her sitting room. The film pirouettes through bedrooms, speakeasies and silk-stocking pratfalls until Pat—now thoroughly entangled—realizes the hostage he dragged is the woman his heart was secretly mapping. Meanwhile Robert learns that his wife’s clandestine trysts were sisterly, not adulterous, renditions of sibling loyalty. In the echoing marble lobby of coincidence, masks slip, couples re-sort, and the city that never sleeps finally yawns at the comic fragility of trust.
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When newlywed Robert Ellis suspects that his missing wife is having a clandestine affair, he appeals to his friend, Pat Murphy, to find her. Pat's search leads him to the Waldorf-Astoria where he finds a woman named Edna Ellis and, assuming that she is Ellis' errant wife, kidnaps her and returns her to Ellis. Complications arise when the real Mrs. Ellis arrives home and discovers another woman. After several comic incidents, Pat falls in love with Edna and Ellis learns that his wife's secret rendezvous was with her sister.
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