ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

csteidler Phone company technicians Pat O'Brien and Allen Jenkins charge into a luxurious apartment populated by lounging ladies. They exchange insults, they install a longer phone cord, they exchange a few suggestive phone cord jokes as they finish the job. O'Brien slaps one of the women on the rear on his way out. –These phone repair guys are fast, tough and too cool for rules.O'Brien's swagger gets him into trouble with boss Eugene Palette ("I was gonna slap her on the shoulder and she bent over," he says) but in the next scene he's performing a daring rescue atop a burning building and is proclaimed a hero. Ah, the life of a telephone technician: excitement, glamour and adventure—at least according to this picture.Joan Blondell co-stars as a switchboard operator who gets innocently mixed up in an office swindle. Accused of theft, she takes it on the lam…and guess who sets out to rescue her by tracking down and trapping the real crooks? Glenda Farrell is hilarious as "Madame Francis, Spiritualist Medium." Using her office phone system to run phony séances, Glenda is busted by our heroes—who then start hanging out with her.The four stars are all highly entertaining (although Farrell's role is regrettably minor). The plot may be somewhat predictable—O'Brien and Jenkins use their tools and phone skills to track the crooks, tap their calls, learn their plans—but it moves fast and packs plenty of attitude.It's never especially believable but awfully hard to resist.

Michael_Elliott I've Got Your Number (1934)*** (out of 4) Extremely entertaining gem from Warner about phone repairman Terry Riley (Pat O'Brien) who falls for a beautiful blonde (Joan Blondell) but soon gets caught up in a robbery. I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER turns into a crime picture for the final fifteen-minutes but the rest of the running time is basically a romantic comedy and it's a very good one at that. I think it's pretty clear that the egotistical maniac, fast talking lead character was meant to be played by James Cagney but for whatever reason he didn't do the part so O'Brien stepped in. It seems whenever the Cagney-O'Brien team couldn't do a picture, the studio gave the lead to O'Brien and then they'd bring in either Allen Jenkins (as they did here) or Frank McHugh. O'Brien and Jenkins makes for a very good pair as the two work well off one another and make for a highly entertaining and very fast little picture. The two of them can mix it up extremely well and Jenkins certainly manages to bring a lot of laughs. Blondell is also very good in her role as she's certainly easy on the eye but she also manages to make you believe her in the part. Glenda Farrell has a brief but very funny part as a fake psychic and we also get a good supporting performance by the always entertaining Eugene Palette. There are countless highlights to this film but I think the greatest thing are the various pre-code elements with most of them dealing with sex. O'Brien's character, in today's world, would be called a stalker or sexual harasser because of the way he talks to women, pretty much follows them and forces them to go out with him. It's certainly played for jokes here and it gets plenty of laughs especially one scene early on where two sexually charged women invite him into the house and all sorts of innuendo is thrown around. These pre-code sex jokes are without question hilarious and help keep this film moving at a great pace.

MartinHafer While I must admit that I enjoyed watching "I've Got Your Number", I must also admit that the film had serious flaws. First off, Pat O'Brien's character was a real pig--a sexual harassing jerk. Second, the plot was a bit silly.This film begins with O'Brien working as a telephone repair man. He is good at his job but he's also a pig--and sexually harasses his clients repeatedly. With one woman, he slaps her on the behind. With another (Joan Blondell), he's a bit of a stalker--a guy who won't accept 'no' for an answer. Back in 1934, he might have been seen as a cute fellow--today he would have been arrested! And, true to the ridiculous attitudes of the day, he was the hero--a guy who really was NOT very heroic. To make it worse, after sexually harassing Bondell repeatedly, she responded by falling in love with the guy!!! Today, it's a seriously screwed up relationship to say the least.Overall, this is a film that IS enjoyable but also seriously flawed and stupid. Worth seeing if you love classic Hollywood--otherwise it might just seem trivial and silly.

kidboots Joan and Glenda together in a scintillating comedy - or so I thought but, as usual, I was disappointed (just as I was with "Havana Widows"). I suppose the idea of them starring together looks good on paper but Joan Blondell was a more conventional leading lady with a zippy mouth for a wise crack. Glenda Farrell was zany and sassy and I just adore her and unfortunately she was never going to be the star when Joan was around. To see Glenda in a snappy comedy I recommend "Girl Missing" - unfortunately she didn't get the leading man ( pastel pretty Mary Brian was around for that) but she did get to show off some of her mile a minute speeches.Not in "I've Got Your Number" unfortunately. In this movie, for all her co-star billing she had one scene as a zany phoney medium and another small one where she was Allen Jenkins rather drunk date!!! She and Joan shared no scenes together. The real star was Pat O'Brien, in the sort of part he was perfecting in the early 30s - Terry, a wise cracking ladies man who knows all the answers. Along with Allen Jenkins as John, they play a couple of trouble shooting telephone repairmen who are the despair of their boss, Joe Flood (Eugene Palette). In this inconsequential story, Terry meets Marie (Blondell) a telephonist who has just had to resign due to some unsavoury gossip linking her to a betting scandal. She needs employment and Terry remembers Mr. Schuyler (Henry O'Neil) and his promise to help if Terry was ever in a jam. Marie is soon efficiently working the switchboard but Nicky (her friend's boyfriend and the originator of the betting scam) turns up like a bad penny and once again Marie is up to her ears in a bonds theft - completely innocent of course!!! It finishes very quickly, Terry is captured but with his inside knowledge of telephone wiring methods is, unbeknownst to the crooks, able to alert his office and have help on the way.Just a so-so movie, good for a rainy afternoon but not memorable.