George Arliss is a shoe manufacturer, whose greatest joy is the fight against the competitor who married the girl they both loved. When he finds his competitor is dead, he goes fishing in Maine and runs into the man's two children, Bette Davis and Theodore Newton, two young wastrels who are drinking all the bootleg in the United States, while the factory's management guts the business. So he decides to reform them all.
It's another of Arliss' modern dress comedies, which are my favorites. It's also his second movie with Miss Davis -- his first was THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES. At this point in her career, she was considered an absolute dub, whom one executive said "has as much sex appeal as Slim Summerville." Arliss saw something in her. It turned out he was right.
It's another of Arliss' modern dress comedies, which are my favorites. It's also his second movie with Miss Davis -- his first was THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES. At this point in her career, she was considered an absolute dub, whom one executive said "has as much sex appeal as Slim Summerville." Arliss saw something in her. It turned out he was right.