Bot performance-wise, but plot-wise. Yes, this wacky RKO programa snail in a cameo an important plot point involving a missing valuables down, being chased by a Toto like terrier who ends up with the stamp himself. That's not really the plot line of this whack-a-doodle comedy, and if I tried to explain the plot line, I'd end up confusing potential viewers more than the inclusion of a snail. Let's just say that clerk John Morley is a $25 a week nobody at a newspaper who basically keeps his job by pretending to be a trouble-making reporter, taking the blame for everything going on and avoiding lawsuits by claiming that is married with children so offended newspaper subjects won't sue.
Morley meets and falls in love with pretty Anne Shirley, daughter of stamp collector Gene Lockhart. But when Lockhart believes him to be responsible for a story about him and drops his complaint out of sympathy towards Morley's plight, Shirley believes him to be married with children as well. The plot gets wackier thanks to a dinner party where a stamp Lockhart brings all of a sudden disappears (being shared by pooch and snail), resulting in a screwy chase sequence involving secretary Barbara Pepper (claiming to be Morley's wife) and Shirley's unsuccessful suitor (Frank Melton), as well as Morley's boss, Dudley Clements.
This is the type of film where you begin to wonder what was going through the writer's mind when they created this convoluted claptrap. it's also the type of film where you're wrinkling your nose trying to figure out how everything fits together. All of the actors are speaking at ridiculously speedy tempo's, directed as if they were in a 20 minute short that has been stretched out to an hour. Look for Jack Carson in an early small part. fortunately, his appearance is towards the beginning if you decide not to watch the whole thing.
Morley meets and falls in love with pretty Anne Shirley, daughter of stamp collector Gene Lockhart. But when Lockhart believes him to be responsible for a story about him and drops his complaint out of sympathy towards Morley's plight, Shirley believes him to be married with children as well. The plot gets wackier thanks to a dinner party where a stamp Lockhart brings all of a sudden disappears (being shared by pooch and snail), resulting in a screwy chase sequence involving secretary Barbara Pepper (claiming to be Morley's wife) and Shirley's unsuccessful suitor (Frank Melton), as well as Morley's boss, Dudley Clements.
This is the type of film where you begin to wonder what was going through the writer's mind when they created this convoluted claptrap. it's also the type of film where you're wrinkling your nose trying to figure out how everything fits together. All of the actors are speaking at ridiculously speedy tempo's, directed as if they were in a 20 minute short that has been stretched out to an hour. Look for Jack Carson in an early small part. fortunately, his appearance is towards the beginning if you decide not to watch the whole thing.