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What could possibly be better than seeing Claudette Colbert seductively flirting and being outrageously alluring? Much to my dismay, the answer is unfortunately every other film that's ever been made. This is unbelievably awful!

The first fifteen minutes promise so much: Claudette Colbert in a selection of saucy outfits trying to get Edmund Lowe to fall in love with her, for a bet. Then however you think you must have died and found yourself in Hell where Satan has devised his most evil torture yet. I assume it's meant to be a comedy. I assume Stuart Erwin's character - an escapee from the lunatic asylum who thinks he's Napoleon, isn't meant to engender a strong desire to throw a brick through your tv? I assume you're meant to know who the hell all those other guys are? I assume after watching this, you're meant to be able to face watching another picture made in 1932?

But seriously, I was genuinely disappointed in this. It sounded such a fun premise but was executed like a primary school nativity play and clearly written by chimpanzees under the influence of class A narcotics. Absolutely puerile, embarrassingly unfunny humour and by the look of it acted under duress. Edmund Lowe appears to be in shock, as though he's reading those lines under gunpoint. Claudette Colbert looks like she just wants to get this over with as quickly as possible. So, so disappointing - Miss Colbert is one of my all time favourites and to see her in this garbage makes me want to protect her reputation by seeking out and destroying all copies of it.