There Goes My Girl

Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond make a pleasant team as a pair of newspaper reporters whose wedding plans are delayed while they investigate a couple of murders. Richard Lane is frantic and loud as Sothern's editor, gleefully stooping to any trick to keep from losing his star reporter.

The capable supporting cast includes Frank Jenks and Gordon Jones as fellow reporters caught between pal Sothern and boss Lane. Bradley Page is the smoothly sinister nightclub owner who is up to no good.

Sothern has a couple of wild scenes where she throws a righteous fit at Lane's interference; Lane himself has some deliciously wicked moments in which he rubs his hands together and chuckles over his next scheme for separating Sothern from Raymond (who, after all, works for a rival paper). Raymond is fine if predictable as his usual fast talking self.

The plot moves fast but never really offers any surprises - maybe it's just too similar to every other newspaper crime-comedy made around the same time. In any case, while certainly enjoyable enough for fans, it's all too familiar to be very exciting.