Roberts was primarily a director of shorts, also made Star of Midnight with William Powell and Ginger Rogers (1936), which was also the year of his death aged 40, heart attack.
Ronald Colman represents White Russian restaurant staff, wins a ton of money for them all at Monte Carlo. Then is enticed back there by a beguiling Joan Bennett and her odious brother Colin Clive. Nigel Bruce is Colmans' taciturn valet. It's a multinational cast (French actor André Cheron plays the croupier).
Written by Nunnally Johnson and Howard Ellis Smith, from a play by Ilya Surgechev and Frederick Albert Swan. Photographed by Ernest Palmer.
A 20th Century Fox production. Reasonably good fun. Short. Colmans has an easy air to him. Bennett is a few years off from making a strong impression.
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