Haulage firm movies are a genre - didn't Bogart and Raft set up on their own?
This story starts well with Hanley and Patch picking up a girl with a suitcase on a lonely road, only to crash into a rude rich girl in an expensive car who's weaving all over the road. The three stop off at the kind of downmarket caff that barely exists any more, run by a stage Italian and his ten children (or possibly 15, some of them may be triplets).
Hanley and Patch get the sack, and decide to go into business with Spinelli, with Joan, their hitch-hiker, as secretary. They flourish, and their original employer becomes quite friendly. Even his daughter - the rude girl from the original accident - has a change of heart and Hanley falls for her. There are some wonderful scenes in the Wilsons' Art Deco mansion complete with cocktail bar. You can tell she's a vulgar trollop - she has a cigarette dispenser that spins round while playing a tune. But I love to see people in evening suits fox-trotting.
Hanley storms out of his own firm and goes over to the Wilsons in full evening dress, hoping to accept Mr W's offer of a buyout. But Miss W now has her eye on a rich twit called Claude, and Hanley trails back to the office where he has a chance to redeem himself by helping Spinelli transport some vital equipment to save some miners in a caved-in shaft (including Mervyn Johns).
Good 30s fashions from the girls, too!
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