Marian Marsh

With designs on a beautiful model, a sinister maestro uses hypnotism and telepathy to control her behavior when she doesn’t return his affection.

Murder is afoot when the greedy relatives who failed to get their wealthy, eccentric aunt committed are invited to her home to fight for her fortune.

Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker (William Gargan) and Sandy Brown (Joel McCrea) – famed for their Baker-to-Brown passing game – go their separate ways after graduation: Johnny to the editor's desk of a newspaper sports page and Sandy to the promotional schemes of a wrestling manager nicknamed Shifty. The friends' paths merge again when Johnny helps Sandy out of tough economic times, but their renewed friendship teeters toward permanent collapse when both men woo a lovely newspaper illustrator (Marian Marsh). David O. Selznick is executive producer of this pre-Code programmer, overseeing the array of visual flourishes conjured by Dudley Murphy (director of the following year's The Emperor Jones and a co director of the earlier avant-garde Ballet mécanique). Algonquin Round Table wit Robert Benchley makes his feature debut as an always-befuddled sportscaster.

Afraid to marry his fiancée, Diane, under a negative planetary influence, wacky astrology student, busboy and aspiring prizefighter Dustin Willoughby calls off the wedding and finds a new sweetheart.