Nothing is more delightful in this thoughtful adaptation of his own pacifist play by Robert Sherwood than the sight of old jug-ears himself, Clark Gable, singing and dancing as the front-man for a six-girl dance team. Although softened for the screen, Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning work still has enough bite to expose the idiocy and pointlessness of militarism while keeping our interest in its story of two of life's failures from the more obscure corners of show business. Good supporting performances from Charles Coburn and Laura Hope Crews (later that year to play Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind), but it's Gable's deliberately awful entertainer that you'll remember.

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