An interesting early British talking-picture comedy. Expatriate American La Plante, inveigled into thinking she has received a valuable legacy--a stately English manor with abundant grounds--arrives in Britain to find the estate in virtual escrow. The real owner, the titled Kendall, hasn't
a son. Parlaying her pulchritude, La Plante helps the hapless Kendall to sell his stately suzerainty. La Plante, Universal's top non-talking star during the 1920s, is widely believed to have played no more starring parts subsequent to 1931. Perfidious Albion! She slipped across the water to do
this one last ingenue role, her first and only in Britain, but the film was never relea...
Released:
1934
Rated:
NR
Length:
65 mins