Florida Special

Once again, a motley assortment of passengers get aboard a train, this time bound for Florida: wise-cracking reporter Jack Oakie; his drunk pal, Kent Taylor, who has just been thrown over by his fiance, Frances Drake; she's on the train too, along with her fabulously wealthy uncle, Claude Gillingwater. He hires Police Captain J. Farrell McDonald as a bodyguard. There are many others, of course, but the various plots that begin to mix up events when Taylor falls for activities supervisor Sally Eilers, and Gillingwater vanishes.

It's a programmer directed by the unremarkable Ralph Murphy. Because it's a Paramount movie, there is an interesting and large cast, a script co-written by S. J. Perelman, and the camerawork is by Leo Tover. Even when it wasn't an A production, Paramount, with its vast resources, could and did offer a movie with a lot of polish to it. It's fun, even if you don't care for Oakie's self-congratulatory brashness.