In this vaguely screwballish, but also very sentimental, movie, Victor Moore plays a bum who moves into a New York mansion every year at November when the wealthy owner moves to his winter home and spends the next few months there until the owner returns. This year, things get complicated when the owner’s daughter runs away from her boarding school and goes home while he’s still there. There’s also a goofy romantic lead and his army buddies and then the owner comes looking for his daughter. Anyway, it’s harmless if also pretty forgettable. Don DeFore plays the romantic lead and he’s seemingly totally without either charm or talent. Everybody else is fair to decent. The only two standouts are Charles Ruggles & Gale Storm as the wealthy owner of the mansion and his estranged wife. Ruggles gets off some good comedic moments and, surprisingly, he and Storm have a couple of genuinely sad scenes. They have a great chemistry and you really feel like you are watching two people who loved each other once, but have just drifted apart. I found some of their subplot to work pretty well. But this one’s far from a “classic,” even if it’s sporadically entertaining. 2 ½ stars.
tl;dr – screwball comedy meets sentimental drama with predictably mediocre results; a couple of good supporting performances, but everything else is bland, if harmless. 2 ½ stars.