dreadful 1937 film where three con men play by cary grant and jack oakie and edward arnold con their way to success . for them and the bad thing could have be be that the civil war end . they wind up with a fortune while that be and a fortune in confederate bond . while they be worth nothing and the trio manage to parlay this nothing into a fortune . here be a major flaw in the film . it be never adequately explain how they could get away with this . sound more like the junk bond trade of the 1980s and so . france farmer and a a maid to a chanteuse and be elegantly dress but do very little else here . too bad that miss farmer spend much of her life combat mental disorder . star in this film be a disorder in itself . arnold have some moment especially when he allow greed to lead to his downfall . however and you do not have to be a rocket scientist to see this come . a very poor script certainly do not help this . jack oakie be traditionally a comedian of a 1 quality . how many time be he go to refer to arnold a yes bos and yes bos . slavery end with the civil war .