Jean Harlow

Franchot Tone

Cary Grant

Lewis Stone

Benita Hume

Reginald Mason

Inez Courtney

Greta Meyer

Theodore von Eltz

George Davis

Dennis Morgan

Poppy Wilde

George Fitzmaurice

Herbert Gorman

Alan Campbell

Dorothy Parker

Horace Jackson

Lenore J. Coffee

Maurice Revnes

William Axt

George Boemler

Cedric Gibbons

Douglas Shearer

Dolly Tree

Ray June

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Drama

Suzy

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

United States of America

I greatly enjoyed this--the second of seven films from my 'Jean Harlow: The 100th Anniversary Collection' put out by Warner Archives, unfortunately not with anything in the way of DVD extras (except for a cool, unadvertised set of postcards), and only three of the films were remastered. So it was as if they were perhaps celebrating her, say, 99th birthday and not going all-out like they could and should have, since she DID single-handedly save the studio from bankruptcy three years prior.

I like the way filmmakers back then didn't care if a French actor was playing an Irish inventor and an English actor was portraying a French pilot. THESE days, there'd be sheer, unadulterated hell to pay.

It was a really strange mix of genres, to get absolutely everybody into the seats. I could just see the pitch at the board meeting now: '1914 period piece romantic-comedy mixed with wartime spy thriller and musical'. But Harlow knocked it out of the ballpark, just like she always did. Supertrooper right to the very end.

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