Two young people grow up best friends. Start to have feelings. Older brother comes back to town and is smitten with the girl. Simple, really.
Problem is, I don't think the film-makers knew whether they were making a comedy or a romantic triangle. Or they just made terrible casting decisions and made up a movie on the fly.
Firstly, we get the youthful hijinks of Ramon Navarro and Joan Crawford. Navarro comes across as a ''punchable brat" and Crawford is already too smokin' hot to be playing the innocent girl. Total mismatch.
But it gets worse. The older brother is played by 50-year-old mug Ernest Torrance.
The only dramatic tension for me is wondering how Crawford got stuck in this dog of a movie.
If the younger brother had been Buster Keaton he could have really sold the comedy bits and Torrance would have fit. Just cast a way-less glamour-girl.
If the older brother had been John Gilbert you would have had a legit triangle and some swashbuckling, to boot.
The other problem is the condition of the print. First half is in great shape, but it soons deteriorates to a point where it looks like it was once a ''lost" movie and someone discovered the final two reels in the wine cellar of some Brazilian film collector.
Problem is, I don't think the film-makers knew whether they were making a comedy or a romantic triangle. Or they just made terrible casting decisions and made up a movie on the fly.
Firstly, we get the youthful hijinks of Ramon Navarro and Joan Crawford. Navarro comes across as a ''punchable brat" and Crawford is already too smokin' hot to be playing the innocent girl. Total mismatch.
But it gets worse. The older brother is played by 50-year-old mug Ernest Torrance.
The only dramatic tension for me is wondering how Crawford got stuck in this dog of a movie.
If the younger brother had been Buster Keaton he could have really sold the comedy bits and Torrance would have fit. Just cast a way-less glamour-girl.
If the older brother had been John Gilbert you would have had a legit triangle and some swashbuckling, to boot.
The other problem is the condition of the print. First half is in great shape, but it soons deteriorates to a point where it looks like it was once a ''lost" movie and someone discovered the final two reels in the wine cellar of some Brazilian film collector.