fan of louise brook will want to see her in this and her talkie debut and but be forewarn represent windy riley go hollywood be a sorry excuse for a movie and a primitive comedy without any laugh feature one of the most unappealing lead men imaginable . our hero windy riley be a clueless and pompous and cigar chomp jerk who mess up everything he touch and never realize that everyone think he a fool . he play by a comedian name jack shutta whose performance would not leave you beg for more and but shutta himself can not be blame represent who could have do any good with this feeble script and or with such a deeply exasperate character . the windy riley persona be originally create for a comic strip and and perhaps the strip be funny and i do not know and but base on the evidence at hand i have my doubt . windy be on an unexplained cross country trip from new york to his hometown of san francisco and but he wind up in hollywood instead and and be soon work at a movie studio a a messenger boy . he attempt to get ahead by boost the career of movie star betty grey ( miss brook ) and something he try to accomplish by mean of a dangerous and genuinely idiotic publicity stunt . instead of boost betty career he nearly ruin it and and be ultimately chase out of the studio and hollywood before he can do any real damage . louise brook make this film after return from europe and where she would appear in the three movie that constitute her primary contribution to the cinema . she would leave hollywood in 1929 on bad term and have offend the power that be at paramount and and she come back with a reputation for be headstrong and uncooperative . on top of that and the talkie revolution be under way and plenty of old favorite be quickly fall by the wayside and all bet be off . none of the big studio want to deal with brook and so she wind up make her talkie debut here and in a low budget two reeler crank out at educational picture under the direction of another fall star represent roscoe arbuckle . the former top comedian have be ban from the screen almost ten year earlier but be make a decent living direct comedy for other performer under the name of william goodrich . when he be inspire arbuckle be a gifted director of comedy and but it obvious from the opening scene that the director find no inspiration in windy riley go hollywood . roscoe phone this one in . so all be leave with be the sight of the lead lady and earnestly try to play her part and deliver her clunky line . it a dishearten thing to experience . she get to dance briefly and but of course her dance be quickly interrupt by the unstoppable windy riley . in her best silent film louise brook be ( and be ) almost ethereal and but here the shoddy material make her look and sound all too human . in her first scene a movie star betty grey and brook be present with a publicity poster of herself and delivers her first line in a talkie represent oh mr. snell and i think it great . a photograph like that oughta do me a lotta good and doncha think . that sound you hear be an ex goddess and crash to earth with a dull thud . . .