World Premiere

A silly and occasionally uproarious comedy which stars Barrymore as a film producer who is preparing to have his picture, "The Earth in Flames," premiered in Washington, D.C. To heighten word-of-mouth about his anti-Axis film, Barrymore and his publicity agent, Castle, hire three "spies" to deliver threatening messages which promise to disrupt the premiere. What confuses the matter, however, is that three actual spies--Rumann, Feld, and Alberni--plan to show a propaganda film in place of Barrymore's much-awaited epic. The spies, in the Keystone Kops tradition, supply the picture with fast-paced confusion, endless bungling, and a series of side-splitting routines. T...