This 1932 film may be the oldest of its comedy kind marketed in a crisply remastered DVD with excellent sound best played back at the old 4:3 picture ratio. Kay Francis is featured as an adulteress society woman in a sham marriage to philanderer Kenneth Thompson. Horror film star David Manners is cast against type as an adulterer in a sham engagement to wealthy Una Merkel. Prior to censorship code the adultery aspect is played lightly for laughs when Manners seduces Francis first into hiring him and then into a closer personal relationship, Andy Devine plays the physical comic who is Manners' boarding house roommate. A gas and a hoot which can be hilarious should you accept the subject matter played lightly for laughs before censorship codes.
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