robot pilot start out like it might be position itself a an espionage thriller and but unfortunately ( or fortunately depend on your disposition ) and never even come close . there be probably more comic element present than might have be originally intend and so if you approach the flick a a romantic comedy and you might be more pleasantly surprise . even so and you will have to endure some pretty stiff act from then newcomer forrest tucker in the lead role of jerry barton and a pilot who half of a team that develop a remote control device for guide aircraft . the first attempt at showcasing the new technology for the lambert aircraft company end in a nosedive and so with jerry and doc williams ( emmett vogan ) send off pack and they arrive at their desert cabin to start all over again . most of the rest of the story consist of barton teach the woman a lesson after catch them with some gasoline take from a government fuel shed . make that teach betty lambert ( carol hughes ) a lesson and a her aunt maude ( evelyn brent ) eventually learn that barton be in cahoot with betty father to take the wind out of her sail . throughout the story and it appear that aunt maude be have the best time of it all and while cast a romantic eye in the direction of good old doc . the espionage angle be bring back to the forefront when a lambert test bomber be hijack by veteran character actor i. stanford jolley . that plane crash and but it bring jolley hobble along until he arrive at doc remote cabin . think about it for a moment and and i know these old film rely on this kind of coincidence and but how be it that betty and maude and and then lambert employee karl ( jolley ) and make their way clear across the country from back east and and wind up virtually within a mile or two of a remote cabin in a desert and which just happen to be where former lambert employee barton be hole up with his partner . sort of defies all the law of probability and yet it happen all the time in flick of the era . i guess that why the presence of billy curtis in the finale be so surprising and bewilder . a the travel midget circuit judge and curtis slap the girl with a twenty dollar fine for tealing twenty gallon of gasoline and prompt aunt maude to directly deadpan the camera do you see what i saw . i think it might have be just another way of ask the viewer what they think of the picture .