It's a women's hotel in New York City, and we get to see several of its occupants at first. Soon, however, the focus centers on Lynn Bari, who can afford better, but enjoys the place, and who begins a budding romance with doctor Henry Wilcoxon; Mary Beth Hughes, who is a drama queen. She fakes a suicide attempt and is taken to Wilcoxon's hospital, where she wins the heart of his assistant, Robert Lowery; and Joan Davis who offers some gawky, snoopy comedy relief as one of the maids.
Lowery thinks he's engaged to Miss Hughes, but she starts dating Alan Baxter on the side. When she asks him what he does for a living, he demonstrates by robbing the owner of a roadhouse, shooting him, and getting shot in return. Miss Hughes decides to call in Lowery, telling him Baxter is her brother. He operates on Baxter in Wilcoxon's beach house, but Baxter dies, and then his corpse is dumped for the authorities to find, which eventually brings Inspector Thomas Jackson to Wilcoxon's attention. Lowery has vanished, but Wilcoxon won't peach on him.
At first I thought that Ricardo Cortez was directing an remake of 1936's CLUB DE FEMMES. Although it looks like the writers saw the French movie, they went their own way with the more melodramatic story. It's a pretty good movie from 20 Century-Fox's B division, even if there's nothing extraordinary about it.
