Lost Honeymoon

Ann Richards' friend and the mother of twins has just died. Apparently she was married to Franchot Tone during the War. Meanwhile, Tone is back in the US, about to marry Frances Rafferty. This will be explained by Tom Conway, Tone's best friend and doctor, as amnesia. Miss Richards, masquerading as the dead woman, comes to the US and says she is his wife, and these are your children. Complications ensue in a plot that becomes so fragmented that Tone has to wake Conway every night to explain what's going on.

There are some good lines in this movie written by Joseph Fields. Clarence Kolb seems to have more than his fair share of them, but perhaps Kolb, trouper that he is, is simply better at speaking them. Tone adopts an expression of satisfied stupidity that reminds me of Stan Laurel as time goes on, and Miss Richards speaks her lines as simply as possible, probably in an effort not to be held responsible. This is an Eagle-Lion production, produced by Arthur Krim and his crew as they worked at taking what had been PRC, and making it respectable. It seems to have been very early in the process.