The Reformer And The Redhead

This zesty piece of entertainment has Powell playing an ambitious lawyer seeking to become mayor, and using as a political ploy the shady dealings of the present mayor. When Allyson, daughter of the local zookeeper, supports him because her father has been kicked out of his job for political reasons, Powell is faced with an ethics problem. A romance develops in which forthright and spunky Allyson takes an old-fashioned view of courtship, but a setback occurs when she discovers Powell's conniving to get himself elected. But the two end up together, with Powell making friends with an affectionate lion, Herman, at the zoo. This was the first film to feature the husban...