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As a movie this was not my favorite, but there were some interesting things in it. The screenplay was co-written by Ogden Nash, better known for his light verse. I did not notice any Ogden Nash-ian influences in the dialog. There is a passing mention of Seabiscuit, who would run his famous match race against War Admiral in 1938. The thing that caught my attention most, however, was in the opening scene. Robert Young (playing Melville Cooper's brother) awakes from a sleeper berth in an airplane. There is very little passenger air travel in the movies from MCMXXXVIII, so I was impressed with a plane that offers sleeper berths, something you don't see today. The plane in the movie was the Flagship New York, which was a real plane flown by American Airlines. It was a DST, or Douglas Sleeper Transport. It could hold fourteen passengers. A west coast to east coast flight would take over eighteen hours, but I imagine that the one in the movie was a Chicago to New York run. American did run the Flagship New York on this trip but I don't see why it would take more than six hours. Rich people need naps, I guess.
The Flagship New York
Familiar faces: Margaret Sullavan, Fay Bainter, Hattie McDaniel, Frank Albertson
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