Chester Morris

Jean Parker

Rose Hobart

Dick Purcell

Astrid Allwyn

Rod Cameron

Lorin Raker

Billie Seward

George Watts

James Kirkwood

Robert Middlemass

Ralph Sanford

Grant Withers

George J. Lewis

Milburn Stone

Keye Luke

Jack Norton

Maxwell Shane

Frank McDonald

Daniel Mainwaring

William H. Pine

Theodore Joos

William H. Ziegler

William C. Thomas

Fred Jackman Jr.

Paul Sawtell

Frank Paul Sylos

Crime

Drama

No Hands on the Clock

Pine-Thomas Productions

Paramount Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Chester Morris tries hard with this, but ultimately it's all just a bit too same-old. He is a PI who is despatched by his boss to Reno in Nevada with his brand spanking new wife "Louise" (Jean Parker) where he is supposed to track down a missing gent. Drinking only milk (wife hates the stuff) we now enjoy a series of light hearted escapades as they come across all and sundry - savoury and otherwise - on their hunt. To be fair, the writing doesn't let the thing hang about - but the constant banter between the couple becomes grating after a while, and there is something just a little to far fetched about the manner in which they get involved then extricate themselves from their dodgy scenarios. I like Morris' genial style of acting: laid back, charming, quick witted and this pair have a certain palpable chemistry as they made quite a few films together, but this one did very little for me, sorry.

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