A different kind of part for Alice Faye who after six years of singing and dancing in big budget Fox musicals puts on a helmet and gets behind the wheel. She's not a race car driver, but a pilot, entering a cross country race with funny girl Joan Davis at her side and finding a rival in society girl Constance Bennett.
With a name like Trixie Lee and a more gregarious, less than ladylike personality, Faye comes off closer to a Betty Hutton style of character. She tries several methods of sabotaging Bennett whom she's obviously jealous of, both in the air and on the ground, in a romantic triangle with Kane Richmond. Nancy Kelly and Charles Farrell also figure somewhere in this.
So-so for its formula plot and cardboard cutout characters, this may be an A list movie (rivaled by Warner Brothers' B variation, "Women in the Wind"), but it's not a great one. Faye's crack up scene isn't believable at all as the plane hits the ground with no explosion and she's only slightly disheveled. I could have done without the comic elements of the silly Wally Vernon. Davis does her typical drop gag girl with gusto, but she seems out of place like Faye does.
With a name like Trixie Lee and a more gregarious, less than ladylike personality, Faye comes off closer to a Betty Hutton style of character. She tries several methods of sabotaging Bennett whom she's obviously jealous of, both in the air and on the ground, in a romantic triangle with Kane Richmond. Nancy Kelly and Charles Farrell also figure somewhere in this.
So-so for its formula plot and cardboard cutout characters, this may be an A list movie (rivaled by Warner Brothers' B variation, "Women in the Wind"), but it's not a great one. Faye's crack up scene isn't believable at all as the plane hits the ground with no explosion and she's only slightly disheveled. I could have done without the comic elements of the silly Wally Vernon. Davis does her typical drop gag girl with gusto, but she seems out of place like Faye does.