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Paramount, 1933. Directed by
Norman Z. McLeod. Camera: Gilbert Warrenton. With
Sari
Maritza, Alison Skipworth, Roland Young, Kent Taylor, Roscoe Karns, Warren
Hymer, George Barbier, DeWitt Jennings, Jackie Searle. |
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While Lady Beulah Bonnell of Twicket on
Topping, Sussex, goes bankrupt, her niece Cecily Withers receives
flowers from Dick Garfield, son of an American billionaire. Beulah
and her brother, Sir Reginald Withers, sail to America to find work.
On board the boat, Dick proposes to Cecily, but she refuses him.
In America, Reginald is tricked into buying
a speakeasy and names it Little Twicket on Topping. Bootleggers
Nutty Bolton and Keyhole McKluskey then insist that Reginald pay for his
quota of liquor by 10:30 that night. Before the deadline, Reginald
pays people to come to his club in the hope of selling his investment to
unsuspecting capitalist Mr. Stephens. He mistakes Stephens for a
policeman, however and, when Beulah tells him American cops must be
bought off, Reginald tells Stephens the crowd is fake so as to pay less
for police protection. Stephens, who was about to buy the club,
rips up his check and leaves laughing. Garfield, in attendance
with Dick and Cecily, gives Reginald $500 just minutes before 10:30.
When he learns Reginald owns the place, however, Garfield accuses him of
being a fortune hunter and is thrown out of the club. While the
families feud, Beulah insults Dick in order to get him to fight for
Cecily.
Meanwhile, Beulah has transformed the club
into the respectable Boots and Saddle. When Reginald refuses to buy
Bolton's cheap liquor, the bootleggers fill ginger ale bottles with
liquor and deliver cases of them. That night, the club is filled
with upper class clientele whom Beulah has invited. Garfield
arrives to get Dick, but gets very drunk on "ginger ale," allowing Dick
and Cecily to escape and elope. The married couple returns when
they learn the police are about to raid the place. Just after Beulah
sells to Stephens, the police arrive, and Dick confesses he actually
bought the club for Cecily. At the police station, they find out
the bootleggers framed them, after which the police escort Cecily and
Dick to their honeymoon. |
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