Joan Blondell may have been best known as America’s favorite gold digger but some of her best performances are as women working more mundane jobs who nevertheless find themselves caught up in scandal. Here, Pat O’Brien’s alpha telephone repairman is here responsible for making Blondell’s operator the subject of the headline “DA Nabs Blonde in 90K Racket.” Their verbal sparring, as he tries to clear her name, is classic pre-Code banter.
16mm, b/w, 68 min. DIR: Ray Enright. SCR: Warren Duff, Sidney Sutherland. CAST: Joan Blondell, Pat O’Brien, Allen Jenkins.
