Word: gangsterisms
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...Have Our Moments", the fun-fest alluded to above, shows the other side of life, with James Dunn and Sally Eilers co-starring in an international money smuggle that has dialogue that sparkles like champagne. And after outwitting an international gangster, who looks very much like a former head of the Chase Bank who shall go nameless, and a magnificent French detective, the two wind up in Monte Carlo, in each other's arms of course...
Plot B is about Janet Haley (Barbara Stanwyck) just out of jail and trying to find her baby daughter, whom her bank-robber husband hid in some unknown place before he was shot. A gangster named Innes (Stanley Ridges) tells her he will lead her to her baby for $1,000 or her "friendship." When she tries to steal the $1,000 Gangster Hanlon has sent to Interne Kildare, Kildare foils her, learns her story, falls in love and gets Hanlon to capture Innes, who is seriously wounded. Kildare performs another emergency operation and Hanlon forces Innes to reveal that...
...warrant in a divorce suit, encounters Millicent Kendall (Ann Sothern') trying to escape from an undesirable suitor. By the time both have been chased by the same motorcycle policeman into refuge at the same Adirondack cabin, Nostrand thinks Millicent is a summons server, she thinks he is a gangster. It takes the arrival at the cabin of a shaggy local trapper (Slim Summerville), a real gangster, a machine-gun posse led by the local sheriff (John Qualen), a blizzard and a tame rabbit to relieve their misapprehensions...
Some Europeans still believe that there are wild Indians in Indiana and buffaloes in Buffalo. Most Europeans still believe that Chicago's streets echo daily with gangster gunfire. No such ignoramus is Emile E. C. Mathis, French motor car tycoon who has visited the U. S. many times. Last week he and handsome Mme Mathis were in the U. S. again. One evening in Manhattan they made a gay night of it at swank restaurants and night clubs, winding up with scrambled eggs & coffee at famed Reuben's ("That's All") all-night restaurant on 58th Street...
...suspense bangs on the turn of each ironical development. Ghastly irony is this drama's most lethal weapon, and it is called into play so effectively and so frequently that the unhappy spectator is harrowed sick. A forlorn halfwit, for example, driven out of his warm shelter by the gangster villain, picks up a cigarette butt discarded by that villain, and by lighting it unconsciously gives a signal that draws fire from the villain's underling and thereby kills the villain...