Eddie Albert pours on the charm as a lowly newspaper clerk, nicknamed "Dreamy," who's the living embodiment of altruism. Although he dreams of sailing the seas with his roommate, Skipper (Alan Hale), he keeps losing his stake, mostly because he goes out of his way to help other people. When he sees a fireman collapse in a burning building, he rushes in to save him. When a newsboy friend (Dickie Moore) is hit by a car, he pays his hospital bills and even lets his evicted family move into his home. Before long, however, his generosity is threatening his job (he keeps diverting want ads so his friends can be the only ones applying for the jobs) and his girl (Joan Leslie). The film was adapted from Harold Titus' story "The Stuff of Heroes," which had appeared in American Magazine in 1924. Warner's had filmed it in 1925 as the silent comedy How Baxter Butted In, starring Matt Moore and Dorothy Devore under William Beaudine's direction. That picture is now considered lost, but the remake captures all of Titus' original whimsy.

By Frank Miller