Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness) on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiancé Barrington Thorne. When Bill and his friends visit the Bennett estate, Stoner, the butler, asks them to "Walk this way, please," and they oblige by imitating his bent-knee walk, in one of the first uses of this now-standard routine.
Should you actually watch this? Look, if you are the type of person who digs through archives to find where jokes started, sure. It is a harmless, breezy little thing. But if you have zero patience for stiff acting and predictable rich-girl-meets-poor-boy plots, skip it. You will probably hate the pacing if you are use...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Richard Thorpe
Charley Chase
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"Should you actually watch this? Look, if you are the type of person who digs through archives to find where jokes started, sure. It is a harmless, breezy little thing. But if you have zero patience for stiff acting and predictable rich-girl-meets-poor-boy plots, skip it. You will probably hate the pacing if you are used to modern edits. The whole thing feels like a stage play that forgot to leave the theater. Patricia Belmont is bored out of her mind with her fancy life. Enter Bill Smith, who s..."
Maynard Holmes
Karl Brown
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