It's a third-rate local repertory house when the 'professionals' are people who had a crack at the West End...and failed. Now the company is asked to premiere a new play by Margaret Rutherford, the aunt of one of the producers. It is a horrid thing, full of bad dialogue and hackneyed situations, and the main producer of the theater, Robert Morley, has to gnash his teeth and make something of it, mostly by telling Miss Rutherford to cut out nine-tenths of the first act and write a new one in thirty minutes.
It's certainly fun to watch these two go at it, hammer and tongs, but the play within the play really is that bad, and gives the movie's audience little to sink its teeth into. The self-painted portraits of the other members of the company are sad little affairs. As a result, we are left with Mr. Morley and Miss Rutherford. They're certainly always worth watching.
It's certainly fun to watch these two go at it, hammer and tongs, but the play within the play really is that bad, and gives the movie's audience little to sink its teeth into. The self-painted portraits of the other members of the company are sad little affairs. As a result, we are left with Mr. Morley and Miss Rutherford. They're certainly always worth watching.