Lucky Wilson (Robert Sterling) may have a baby face, but he is a hard-boiled gangster. He muscles in on legitimate businesses to take a cut, and cuts them if they don't comply. He runs around with a bevy of beautiful women of varying intelligence, telling them all they sure know how to make a guy realize what he's been missing all his life. One night after a run-in with the cops, Lucky takes off on a high speed chase and winds up with a bullet in his wing. He lands on a farm owned by a nice family who takes him in to recover from what they believe is a wound received by a group of gangsters.
Lucky couldn't have picked a more wholesome family. Fay Holden and Henry Travers are Ma and Pa, Marsha Hunt is Pauline and Virginia Weidler is her little sister Lizzie. Pauline plays nursemaid and develops a crush on their visitor. Lizzie talks too much, shows off and does anything to keep his attention. Once he is well enough to get to the phone, Lucky calls his pals who advise him the heat is on and he better stay on at the farm as a boarder until it is safe to come back to the city.
The epitome of a wholesome feel-good film, I'll Wait For You is polished propaganda for small town America. The acting is solid, the story is believable enough without being very detailed; it is a charming film that could have used a better, more memorable title. I saw this on TCM.
