This is a very inconsequential film, a curio really. Ben Lyon is a riveter, and the film opens with him singing to his partner on the job. Rich girl Ona Munson is at a window, he steps in (the window) for lunch, and then takes her out on a double date to a Chinese restaurant that evening. She then invites him out to their country house to meet the folks, the double-daters also coming along. After complications, they get together again. That's the plot, but there's even less here than it sounds. The film gets by--barely--on two things. First there's Lyon's bright performance. Second is the unapologetic vulgarity, brashness and total lack of etiquette and decorum of the double-daters (Tom Dugan and Inez Courtney) and, to some extent, Lyons. For example, in the Chinese restaurant, the guys pass food back and forth to each other, ignoring the gals in between who try to grab some. The film's biggest hoot is the zany and uninhibited dancing in this scene. There's very little class snobbery displayed, the film being too trifling to have that sort of unpleasantness. Pidgeon, barely in the film, doesn't plot and scheme much, merely reveals at an inopportune moment that Lyon is a riveter. The best one can say about the film is that, though it's VERY slight, it's not quite as tiresome as it might have been.
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