William Gargan is a promoter on the make for Patricia Ellis. Her brother, Erik Rhodes, is a cook who says he is a great chef waiting for a break, so Gargan promotes him into a big contract with a leading local hotel. There's just one problem. He can't cook.
It's a nice set-up, and director William McGann has a good cast form Warner Brothers' stock company to work with, including Allen Jenkins and Berton Churchill. However, I am not terribly fond of this movie. Like many Warners comedies of this period, it's frantic rather than funny, with none of the snap that some of the studio's motormouths could offer; Gargan himself seems plodding in his line readings. It looks like McGann's failure, who was more highly regarded as an assistant director than in te top spot. His career dribbled away in the middle of the 1940s and he died in 1977, aged 84.
It's a nice set-up, and director William McGann has a good cast form Warner Brothers' stock company to work with, including Allen Jenkins and Berton Churchill. However, I am not terribly fond of this movie. Like many Warners comedies of this period, it's frantic rather than funny, with none of the snap that some of the studio's motormouths could offer; Gargan himself seems plodding in his line readings. It looks like McGann's failure, who was more highly regarded as an assistant director than in te top spot. His career dribbled away in the middle of the 1940s and he died in 1977, aged 84.