Nancy Carroll may have regarded this movie as just a quickie but the reviews from Variety and New York Daily News were very positive. Not exactly a pairing to conjure up screw ball comedy, Nancy and Lloyd Nolan, who had been performing in a road show production of "The Front Page", proved an inspired team. You've seen it all before - a go-getter reporter whose "a story at any price" style means his frustrated girl always seems to finish the evening up on her lonesome - but the story is fast paced and it just seems very fresh because maybe in 1935 it was!!
When Helen goes to the ship's pier for yet another reconciliation, she is mistaken for a mobster's moll and given money and a passport with the promise of more information when she is given the "ice"!! Once the boat sails (Helen and Dan are too busy quarrelling to notice!!), it seems there are more crooks on board than passengers. There are Mr. and Mrs. Van Dieman, the real jewel thieves, then there is Frank Julian (Arthur Hohl) who is planning a switcheroo and hopes to slip the "ice" to his moll (Dan has convinced Helen to play along). Also along are a quaint pair - a doddering wheel chair bound gent and his very polite carer who are soon revealed as an escaped killer (John Wray) and his accomplice Spike (and you know anywhere Dwight Frye is, the mood is creepy and sinister)!!
Now Mitt Coaster is the scoop Dan is hell bent on getting and as the Atlantic adventure gets going, all crooks join ranks as Spike overhears the diamond plans and decides he wants a bit of ice for himself.
No self respecting reporter in 1930s movies is a "jimmy Malone" so Dan has a photographer pal, Snapper, played by the once legendary comic Harry Langdon. He obviously never regained his former glory but by the mid 1930s he was finding work in shorts and playing second stringers like Snapper.
I obviously enjoyed it a lot more than other reviewers, I thought Nolan was not abrasive and surely it would be impossible not to like Nancy in everything she does!!
When Helen goes to the ship's pier for yet another reconciliation, she is mistaken for a mobster's moll and given money and a passport with the promise of more information when she is given the "ice"!! Once the boat sails (Helen and Dan are too busy quarrelling to notice!!), it seems there are more crooks on board than passengers. There are Mr. and Mrs. Van Dieman, the real jewel thieves, then there is Frank Julian (Arthur Hohl) who is planning a switcheroo and hopes to slip the "ice" to his moll (Dan has convinced Helen to play along). Also along are a quaint pair - a doddering wheel chair bound gent and his very polite carer who are soon revealed as an escaped killer (John Wray) and his accomplice Spike (and you know anywhere Dwight Frye is, the mood is creepy and sinister)!!
Now Mitt Coaster is the scoop Dan is hell bent on getting and as the Atlantic adventure gets going, all crooks join ranks as Spike overhears the diamond plans and decides he wants a bit of ice for himself.
No self respecting reporter in 1930s movies is a "jimmy Malone" so Dan has a photographer pal, Snapper, played by the once legendary comic Harry Langdon. He obviously never regained his former glory but by the mid 1930s he was finding work in shorts and playing second stringers like Snapper.
I obviously enjoyed it a lot more than other reviewers, I thought Nolan was not abrasive and surely it would be impossible not to like Nancy in everything she does!!