Amazing Adventure ~ 1937 -BW

QUICKIE: A bored rich guy spends a year living as "the other half lives".

PLOT: (from IMDB): Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesn't think Ernest can fill: Ernest must earn his own living for one year using none of his current wealth. Ernest bets him 50,000 English pounds that he can.

SUMMARY: Oh, to be the idle rich, it's such a tedious and dreary thing. Our hero, Mr. Bliss bets his Dr. to live as a working class man for a year. So Bliss works as a stove salesman and through offering free dinners gains a sale of 100 stoves. The boss wants to make him a partner, and for some dumb reason, Bliss won't accept success, so he declines and becomes a chauffer for hire instead.

Meanwhile the stove business secretary and Mr. Bliss fall for each other. Our heroine (Mary Brian) has a sister who needs to be sent to Switzerland for medical care and the only way she can see to finance it is to marry her old boss, the stove king. Our hero Mr. Bliss forfits his bet so he can save our heroine from marrying for money.

A charming film overall. Not many laughs or great drama, but a nice, plain film all the same. Bliss continually turns around and uses his money to change things, which somehow doesn't negate the bet. I love that he ends up buying the garage where he worked and firing his old boss. Who wouldn't love that kind of power? And let's face it, Cary Grant is such a joy to watch I don't care much about the story.

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