in this film and errol flynn play a publicity man and ex newspaper editor and patric knowles play the owner of a newspaper and rosalind russell a star reporter and olivia dehavilland play . well and . an idiot . while i could try to explain the plot as well a how all these character come together in the film and i would rather not a the film be a super frenetic mess . i be a huge fan of errol flynn as well a olivia dehavilland and so it come a quite a surprise that i enjoy this film as little a i do . the big problem be that despite all the star power and the direction of the great michael curtiz and the overall effort be pretty awful and be only save by a few moment here and there ( provide mostly by flynn and walter connelly ) . the star and script try too hard make the film very shrill and pushy . this be because the film be too high pace and the script too busy often result in all the main actor talk loudly over each other ( not a fun experience at all ) . now some film with these quality work ( such a my girl friday or bring up baby ) and but this one do not because the script be poor plus miss dehavilland be cast in one of her bad role ever . while miss dehavilland be wonderful in role in such notable film a captain blood and go with the wind and here she play against type . instead of the usual sweet character and here she play a ditsy dame and it just never work and seem and like the rest of the film and very forced . katherine hepburn could pull this off and dehavilland could not . the bottom line be that the star of this film make much good film and you should see them instead . in particular and flynn and knowles and dehavilland all appear in one of the great film of the era and the adventure of robin hood . so it obvious with good direction ( sorry and curtiz just doesn not have it here and though he be usually a wonderful director particularly in romance and adventure film ) and write this should have be a lot well consider the money warner brother spend to bring all these star together .