1938 Directed by Lewis Seiler
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Frank McHugh Jane Wyman Cora Witherspoon Diana Lewis Berton Churchill Chester Clute William Haade Tom Kennedy Raymond Hatton John Ridgely Cliff Clark Rita Gould Jimmy Conlin Sol Gorss Eddie Graham John Harron Ben Hendricks Jr. Stuart Holmes Paul Irving Jack Mower Pat O'Malley Paul Panzer John J. Richardson Harry Tenbrook Leo White Harry Wilson Tom Wilson Jack Wise Ferris Taylor
A weak story kills this film about a broke office clerk (Frank McHugh) who is getting pressured from his co-worker's (Jane Wyman) mother (Cora Witherspoon) to get married to her daughter. Things take a turn for the worse between the three when the guy goes to an auction and spends all his money on a plaster statue because it reminds him of a model (Diana Lewis) and soon all hell breaks loose due to this statue.
At just 57-minutes there's certainly nothing overly bad or evil with this film but there's no question that it should have been much better. If you're a fan of classic Warner films then you've bound to have seen McHugh appear with some of the…
Too silly with Frank McHugh falling in love with a statue! Well, anything was better then Jane Wyman and the mother-in-law from hell. Includes some tiny laughs, but that's it.
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