For his last Warner Bros. film, rubber-faced comic Joe E. Brown got to demonstrate his athletic skills as a young man pretending to be a star polo player. The pretense is the only way he can get close to his wealthy aunt's pretty neighbor (Carol Hughes), who couldn't love any man who didn't play polo. Since the local polo team is fully manned, it seems like a safe ruse, until one member breaks his arm, and Brown is called on to replace him. Now he has to overcome two obstacles - he can't ride and he's allergic to horses. New York Times critic Frank S. Nugent suggested that Warner's had stuck Brown with a substandard script for his last film with them, but that's not enough to sink the reliable comedian. His attempts to master horseback riding on a temperamental donkey and a runaway horse are comic highlights of a film that didn't need a great script to do well at the box office. Brown is helped greatly by Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, the veteran vaudeville clown cast as his quick-thinking valet. Look closely and you'll catch future Warner Bros. stars Jane Wyman and Wayne Morris in early bits.

By Frank Miller