Movies
Perfect Specimen, The (Warner 1937, Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell)
In The Perfect Specimen Errol Flynn, in his only comic turn, plays a sheltered millionaire living a life of ease in his secluded mansion, awaiting the day when he will take over the family business.
Hoping to nab an exclusive story, a woman reporter (the bustling Joan Blondell) penetrates the mansion and returns with the heir to the outside world.
Though the police believe he’s been kidnapped, he relishes his time spent among the unwashed masses with the journalist. A curiosity (comedy wasn’t Curtiz’s forte, either) but good fun.
production details
USA | Warner | 97 minutes | 1937
Director: Michael Curtiz
Script: Lawrence Riley, Norman Reilly Raine, Brewster Morse, Fritz Falkenstein, Samuel Hopkins Adams,
cast
Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Grattan
Joan Blondell as Mona Carter
Harry Davenport as Carl Carter
May Robson as Mrs. Leona Wicks
Dennie Moore as Clarabelle
Allen Jenkins as Pinky
Errol Flynn as Gerald Beresford Wicks
Hugh Herbert as Killigrew Shaw
Dick Foran as Jink Carter
Beverly Roberts as Alicia Brackett
Hugh O’Connell as Hotel Clerk
James Burke as Constable Snodgrass
Granville Bates as Hooker – Garage Owner
Tim Henning as Briggs