Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

mark.waltz The Warner Brothers really should have been warned by the script office when this was submitted and approved for production that it really had a major stinker on its hands. Smooth-talking Warren William gives his usual touch of class to a screenplay with nothing but clever words while Guy Kibbee is eccentric as usual as a retired Southern colonel. Williams is a con-artist gambling bookie giving out bets on such odd occurrences as how many babies a pregnant woman will have, with the leading one a bet that he can keep Kibbee's daughter (Broadway actress Claire Dodd) from getting married. Really, there's nothing more than that except a couple of amusing moments (one featuring a really young Errol Flynn as Dodd's date who keeps getting interrupted by Williams' men as part of his sabotage) and that leads to an almost entirely forgettable film. Maude Eburne is fun in a small part as a Southern woman who can scream "Henry!" as if it was entire group of people coming out of her mouth. Basically, this is the dumbest blonde joke ever written where the roots are shallow in the skull of stupidity.

Michael_Elliott Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) ** (out of 4) Robert Florey (Murders in the Rue Morgue) directed this comedy about a bookie (Warren William) who decides to go straight by becoming an insurance man who sells claims to freaks. William is good as usual and there's a young Errol Flynn in his second role but director Florey does very little with the material and things get really dry before we even hit the 30-minute mark. There are very few laughs to be found and all the romantic side story are pretty boring and don't lead to any real excitement.

Ron Oliver DON'T BET ON BLONDES is the lesson New York City's most eccentric insurance broker learns the hard way.Fast-moving & fun, this is another example of the comedy crime picture that Warner Brothers was so expert at producing. Casts & plots could be shuffled almost endlessly, with very predictable results. While this assembly line approach created few classics, audience enjoyment could usually be assured.Suave and sophisticated, Warren William dominates this enjoyable little film with his debonair manner and slightly sardonic sense of humor. Playing a topnotch bookie who seamlessly switches to the more legal insurance racket, William is never less than absolutely in command of his performance. His pursuit of lovely Claire Dodd, even though she's the subject of his client's offbeat policy, illustrates his character's single-minded determination to get exactly what he wants. Whether in comedy or drama, Warren William was a most enjoyable actor to watch and it is a shame that he is almost forgotten now.A sturdy cast of costars gives fine support to William. Cuddly Guy Kibbee plays a Kentucky colonel desperate to retain his daughter's largess. Quick-tempered William Gargan is William's numbers expert, while Spencer Charters is his wise old company doctor. Clay Clement is a somewhat larcenous lawyer who has his eyes on Miss Dodd; Walter Byron portrays a prissy hypochondriac actor. Mary Treen is William's no-nonsense secretary; Hobart Cavanaugh plays a little man anxious to ensure his pregnant wife against having twins.Look fast for Herman Bing as a man with a dog. A young Errol Flynn, looking earnest & eager, plays a potential suitor for Miss Dodd; he would become a major movie star very shortly. Wonderful Maude Eburne steals her scenes as a champion husband caller from Iowa.Movie mavens will recognize W. C. Fields' longtime accomplice, Tammany Young, as an uncredited betting tout in the open scene.

elpep49 has bookie William going legit and becoming a high-risk insurer a la Lloyds of London. He and his gang insure all sorts of hair-brained things, such as whether a man (Hobart Cavanaugh) will have twins, whether a husband-caller (Maude Eburne) will lose her voice, etc. But William gets involved in another scheme involving the marriage of a showgirl (Claire Dodd) and the nutty book her father (Guy Kibbee) wants to write. Warners comedy has the usual snappy dialog and the underrated and sadly forgotten Warren William takes great advantage of every line. He had a wonderful, leering kind of comic delivery that made him one of a kind. Mary Treen, Vince Barnet, Herman Bing and, Erool Flynn, in his first substantial part in an American movie, help make this one fun.