An over-the-top Lowell Sherman is the younger brother of aging Edward Martindel, a widower recently married to a woman (Mae Murray) young enough to be his granddaughter. She "daddies" him every chance she can to keep herself endeared to him and he eats it up like a cocktail cherry. When "daddy" invites an attractive business associate (Leyland Hodgson) over for dinner, the stage is set for the drunken Sherman to prove what he's suspected all along, that "young" Murray (a veteran of silent films) isn't above male companionship outside their seemingly perfect marriage.
The film is all frivolous fluff until the dramatic conclusion where Sherman confronts the expectant Murray with her alleged infidelity. Up to this point, it truly seemed that the marriage has been successful. In truth, there is a definite affection between the two, even if passion was obviously absent. Amusing for what it is and not as creaky as many other early sound talkies, it still contains some performances that could be best described as melodramatically stagy. A subplot between Sherman and Karen Morley as Hodgson's secretary seems to have no other point than to make the effete Sherman seem more masculine and a bit of a ladies man.
The film is all frivolous fluff until the dramatic conclusion where Sherman confronts the expectant Murray with her alleged infidelity. Up to this point, it truly seemed that the marriage has been successful. In truth, there is a definite affection between the two, even if passion was obviously absent. Amusing for what it is and not as creaky as many other early sound talkies, it still contains some performances that could be best described as melodramatically stagy. A subplot between Sherman and Karen Morley as Hodgson's secretary seems to have no other point than to make the effete Sherman seem more masculine and a bit of a ladies man.