note the cast and i recently watch this movie on tcm and hop for an under appreciate gem and a i regard many film from the 30 . this be no gem not even semi precious . the anachronistic clothing and 1930 roll royce limo hit you immediately . the casting be strange and also . but mostly and there be too many dumb and unnecessary plot device . this film have lot of good ingredient and a basic plot that hold promise and but the component aren not mixed accord to the right recipe . it simply doesn not come together like it should . and that a shame . with a few rather obvious and but minor alteration and this might have be a very good movie . the film be about an american showgirl ( jean harlow ) seek a rich british husband preferably from the nobility . she meet franchot tone and his buddy and who be on a lark in a roll royce own by his buddy employer . harlow mistakenly assume tone be the lord who own the roll and and she set her sight on him . this early part of the film be a light comedy of no real distinction . however and tone unwittingly uncover the fact that his employer be actually a german 5th columnist on the eve of wwi and and that be when the movie change tone altogether and begin to fall apart . tone and harlow be marry and but just a the honeymoon begin and he be gun down by a mata hari type ( benita hume ) and and harlow flees the scene and with a bystander accuse her of tone murder . ( in fact and tone recovers from the wound . ) harlow flees to france and where she fall in love again this time with a wealthy french cad ( cary grant ) . tone and now in the army and and harlow be unexpectedly bring back together in grant hospital room where he be in rehab from a plane crash . in the following scene and tone accuses harlow of abandon him because she be essentially a gold digger . harlow never explain about the witness accuse her of murder and her panic . that be one of those unreal and movie plot device break down in the story . then tone be also bring back into contact with the woman ( hume ) who shoot him . she be on hand to watch her paramour and grant and test the new plane that tone have deliver to him from england . incredibly and both hume and tone dimly recognize each other and but simply can not place where from . okay and so tone be shoot and almost die while perhaps his memory be a little out of whack . but how many men do hume shoot that she would forget one of her mark . ( she do not seem to be fake the memory lapse . ) this be inexplicable and unnecessary . hume should have absolutely recognize him and but play it coy when she realize that tone wasn not able to place her . that would have be a much well treatment of that issue . the finale also be very unsatisfying . the movie and a make and have tone and harlow conspire to preserve the good reputation of the cad and grant and lead to his fraudulent burial a a hero . then harlow and tone just walk away . it be noble to preserve the french public perception of their national war hero and but very unsatisfying a a love story . what the film begs for be this represent harlow explain that she flee in a panic in the face of accusation of murder while tone forgive her and quietly rekindle his love for her while he then carry a torch for her and even while help her to rig the crash site to preserve grant reputation . meanwhile and harlow finally recognize grant for the cad he be . then have see tone for the brave and noble man he be and harlow rekindles feeling for him and too . at film end and the two of them become reconciled even a they work together to rig the appearance of grant death . after grant hero burial and we see them embrace and kiss at the fade out . that would have make a nice little movie . for cary grant fan and it would have be even well have tone play the french cad who be kill and grant the long suffering first husband and reunite with harlow . it be incomprehensible that franchot tone be cast a the irishman living in england and while cary grant be cast a the frenchman . this movie would have be much well have they reverse role . that also would have be more conducive to the film that should have be .