Con man John Hodiak meets confidence woman Lucille Ball and they fall in love. Or does she? Hodiak is heading to Sing Sing with cop Lloyd Nolan for stealing half a million dollars in bond. Five years sewing mail bags wil net him that half a million, so he's doing it willingly. Or is he? Miss Ball is definitely on his mind, as is Elisha Cook Jr., who wants half the money. Or does he? Might Miss Cook and Miss Ball want all the money?
This was a failure at the box office, and it's easy to see why. Everyone seems slightly miscast, save Nolan, who gives one of his usual dependable performances, and Vladimir Sokoloff. Yet I enjoy this movie immensely. It's the big Mardi Gras sequence at the end of the movie, and Karl Freund's camerawork. His portrait photography shows he can do MGM's high-lit shots as well as any, and he makes Miss Ball more beautiful than she had ever been, before or since. No wonder he became the chief cameraman for Miss Ball's TV show!
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