The film begins with Mr. Noonan (Barry Fitzgerald) and offering Tim Burke (John Lund) a proposition. He wants Burke to impersonate Schuyler Tatlock...a rich but thoroughly insane young man. It seems that Noonan has been paid to care for this man but there was a fire and Schuler was killed. Now, in order to prevent his monthly stipend check from stopping, he convinced Burke to pretend to be him at a family get together. The problem is that this get together turns out to be for the reading of a will...and Schuyler turns out to be the sole heir! Now, the family who mostly despised him and was happy to ship him off to Hawaii to live with Noonan is beside themselves...and they pretend to care about Schuyler. In the meantime, Burke is tired of playing crazy and arranges to bump his head and effect a full recovery. What's next? Burke/Schuyler realizes he's fallen in love.
As Schuyler, Burke is an incredibly loud, boorish and obnoxious person. He runs around acting mentally infirmed and lighting fires. This seems incredibly insensitive and also stupid, as arson isn't particularly funny. In fact, most of the time Schuyler is on screen, you really, really hate him and SHOULD hate him as he's a thoroughly one-dimensional jerk...so much so that the film grated on me. It did improve as it went along...but it was hard sticking with this one because Schuyler was THAT awful and detestable. Overall, an okay film and not anything more simply because Schuyler's character was so incredibly overplayed, one-dimensional and boorish.
As Schuyler, Burke is an incredibly loud, boorish and obnoxious person. He runs around acting mentally infirmed and lighting fires. This seems incredibly insensitive and also stupid, as arson isn't particularly funny. In fact, most of the time Schuyler is on screen, you really, really hate him and SHOULD hate him as he's a thoroughly one-dimensional jerk...so much so that the film grated on me. It did improve as it went along...but it was hard sticking with this one because Schuyler was THAT awful and detestable. Overall, an okay film and not anything more simply because Schuyler's character was so incredibly overplayed, one-dimensional and boorish.