gkeith_1 A 7 from me. Two points off for no spectacular Busby Berkeley scenes (budget poverty??). One more point off for black and white, with no color.I watched it because I wanted to see Joan Leslie in another film besides Yankee Doodle Dandy, yes also black and white to my dismay. Here, Joan plays an uneducated idiot, who can't even come close to the English fauxs pas of that great SZ Cuddles Sakall. Once or twice, these two were saying their butchered English at the same time as each other, and I had to laugh out loud.Gracie Allen stupidity? I was thinking more along the lines of Edith Bunker. Even so, both of these actresses were brilliant with excellent and perfect comedic timing.Robert Alda was somewhat nicer here, than in another movie called April Showers, where his character is cruel to a little boy dance performer.Elisha Cook was hilarious, and riding into the water on that white horse was priceless comedy.The three attorneys were rip-roaringly borrrrring, but they somehow they even contributed their own brand of humor to this film.7/10

manoftheoldies This was one of the more fun "B" movies I have seen recently. I am a movie collector who enjoys clean light comedies, and enjoyed this. It stars S.Z. Sakall, so naturally it doesn't try to cover the meaning of life, or contain any heavy-handed social commentary. My kind of movie!! It has a highly unlikely story line with enough laughs along the way to make it enjoyable. Whether it is a sight gag, plot absurdities, the characters breaking out in song, or "inside" jokes about the actors themselves, it is obvious that everyone involved was having fun.Joan Leslie plays a naive good girl who works odd jobs, and Robert Alda is a band leader. Hungarian character actor S.Z Sakall plays a Hungarian professor from Budapest (go figure). Joan Leslie can inherit ten million dollars if she gets married. But it has to happen very soon, or else the inheritance is off. The movie is spent with Sakall, three young single guys (Alda as band leader, a young professor, and a stalker), and some very eager inheritance lawyers who try to marry off Leslie. After we are introduced to the characters, Sakall is shown walking around outside and chattering about his old science laboratory and how he wants a new one. Then he remembers that he accidentally left dynamite on the stove in his lab, and seconds later we hear it blow up in the distance. "No new laboratory, now no old laboratory." He ends up in jail twice in the movie, but not for accidentally blowing up his lab.A memorable line: (Sakall is on the stand in court): "For how long have you known the ladies in question?" "Question, what's question??" "You DO understand the English language..." "Yes I understand. I talk English perfect. A couple of years ago I had an accent, but I lose it."Will Leslie be able to make up her mind on which guy to marry before the clock runs out? Will some lucky guy end up with Leslie? Will Sakall get his funding for a new science lab? Will the inheritance lawyers strike it rich? Watch it to find out!

ksf-2 Any flick directed by B. Berkeley, and has Edward E. Horton (small part) can't be ALL bad. Sure, that silly plot is pretty flimsy, but you also have some respectable song and dance numbers, Robert Alda and Joan Leslie, and of course "Cuddles" Sakall as the stubborn Professor. Judy ( Leslie ) and Tommy ( Alda ) work on a radio show that gives away money and prizes, and helps locate long lost relatives. But there are conditions to be met when they DO find the rightful heir, and the conditions are almost more trouble than they are worth... but in this case, its ten million dollars at stake. Also keep an eye out for Elisha Cook as the "roommate" at college... he was the weakling villain in "Maltese Falcon". The running gag in "Cinderella Jones is the list of malaprops said almost non-stop for the second half of the film. Half the cast ends up in jail, and then we're in court trying to straighten it all out, like any good, respectable, farce. Funny to note that in the credits, Sakall's role is listed as Gabriel Popik, but about halfway through the film, everyone starts calling him "Cuddles", his real nickname. Sit back and enjoy the 90 minute story, as long as you're willing to buy into the silliness.

beegeebright Maybe it's just me, but is no one else troubled by the apparent ability of just about everyone in this movie to change who they love and whom they want to marry almost at will. No concept of everlasting love troubles the writer and certainly will not trouble any ensuing marriage that would come from this movie. I just found it disappointing. Joan Leslie is good enough, but haven't we come too far (even by 1946) than to think it's funny that women are stupid. And just too idiotically stupid to continue living. Unlike other commentators I did not think the bubbles from the mouth bit funny at all, I just thought it dumb. Which pretty well sums up the movie for me.