Franchot Tone and Loretta Young are a happily married young couple. He's a rising King's Counsel, rumored to be the next Attorney General, and she's Loretta Young. But he's prosecuting Dudley Digges for the murder of his wife, and Miss Young insists he's innocent. Between that and the exhausting duties of attending baptisms and playing bridge, how long before they crack?
Director Sam Wood was a capable house director who could handle anything from a Marx Brothers comedy to a soap opera to Hemingway, but there's little he can do here with a script that non-stop talk from beginning to end. Roland Young as does his bet mugging as the family friend 'Bunny', but this one is deadly dull in its straightforward handling of the stage play. With Lewis Stone, Jessie Relph, Henry Daniell, and Robert Greig stretching himself to play a butler.
Director Sam Wood was a capable house director who could handle anything from a Marx Brothers comedy to a soap opera to Hemingway, but there's little he can do here with a script that non-stop talk from beginning to end. Roland Young as does his bet mugging as the family friend 'Bunny', but this one is deadly dull in its straightforward handling of the stage play. With Lewis Stone, Jessie Relph, Henry Daniell, and Robert Greig stretching himself to play a butler.