Warren William is the hated but brilliant chief executive of a successful department store. Along the way, he seduces Loretta Young twice, makes her husband, Wallace Ford, his assistant, and deals with the crises that pop up.
It's one of the movies that made William King of the Pre-Code. He fires people unfeelingly, and still comes out on top because, well, he's right; that, after all, is his only justification, and so the movie has him so. He looks at the merchandise in a manner that indicates he doesn't understand it at all, sets a sleazy Alice White on Arthur Gran to keep him out of Williams' hair, and wrecks lives without compassion. In the process, director Roy Del Ruth compresses what would have been a 90-minute movie into 75 by having everyone talk at top speed. You got a lot of movie at Warner Brothers in those days!
It's one of the movies that made William King of the Pre-Code. He fires people unfeelingly, and still comes out on top because, well, he's right; that, after all, is his only justification, and so the movie has him so. He looks at the merchandise in a manner that indicates he doesn't understand it at all, sets a sleazy Alice White on Arthur Gran to keep him out of Williams' hair, and wrecks lives without compassion. In the process, director Roy Del Ruth compresses what would have been a 90-minute movie into 75 by having everyone talk at top speed. You got a lot of movie at Warner Brothers in those days!