If this movie is supposed to be an accurate depiction of the multicultural cesspit that is New York, the famous and often romanticized "melting pot", filled with degenerates and scum of all shapes and colors (but all of them acting "black") - it's a total success. But that doesn't make it watchable or entertaining.
Paulette Goddard plays a very despicable woman in this film. Ellen Crane clearly has a MAJOR gambling addiction but it isn't just that she cannot stop gambling but she also continually runs out of her gambling debts.
Paulette Goddard always seems to be getting into trouble with the wrong man, and here, unable to pay a gambling debt, she is forced to become engaged to gambling house boss Fred Clark. Making a quick escape, she finds a private detective (MacDonald Carey) on her trail, hired by Clark to bring her back.
Paramount put Paulette Goddard in this comedy-adventure playing a compulsive gambler on the run for being in debt to gambler Fred Clark. She manages to escape his willingly open arms, only to be pursued by a private eye (MacDonald Carey) across the country This was not the typical Paramount stuff that comedies were made of.
There's a scene in Sion Sono's magnum opus Love Exposure, in which the emotionally abused and alienated protagonist, Yu, feeling fed up, screams and runs out into the night rain, still wearing his school uniform. He comes across some shady-looking teenagers trying to shake some free food out of a vending machine, and without hesitating, runs up and joins in their attack of the snack dispenser.
