Claude Hulbert is an executive who takes a milk-drinking Scotch buyer for his firm out to a night club one evening, and finds himself in a world of farcical trouble, in which he finds his wallet lifted by a brunette Binnie Barnes and has everyone believing he is the mastermind of a criminal gang.
It's a very competent adaptation from a well-constructed stage farce, and while it clearly betrays its origins, it permits Hulbert to indulge his silly-ass character in witty malapropisms. It also has a few decent songs, including a bright little paean to going home drunk, "It was Four O'Clock in the Morning".
It won't impress anyone who has seen it all, but if you sit down to watch it for a good time, you'll have one.
It's a very competent adaptation from a well-constructed stage farce, and while it clearly betrays its origins, it permits Hulbert to indulge his silly-ass character in witty malapropisms. It also has a few decent songs, including a bright little paean to going home drunk, "It was Four O'Clock in the Morning".
It won't impress anyone who has seen it all, but if you sit down to watch it for a good time, you'll have one.
