How sad is this?

Awesome Movie

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I have mixed feelings about this film, and perhaps that can be explained mostly by somewhat of an aversion I have against Miriam Hopkins. Mostly I dislike her performances, although every once in a while she seems to be just right for a part. For example, "These Three", "The Children's' Hour", and some of her films with Bette Davis are the exceptions, when I enjoy her performances. In "Woman Chases Man", I think she did a decent job of playing a scheming woman who is out to bilk a man (Joel McCrea), but also protecting him (out of a growing love) from another woman is attempting to bilk him.Probably because of his preference later in his career to concentrate on Westerns, Joel McCrae is a much underrated actor, and demonstrated here...though this is hardly his best role (watch instead, for example, "Foreign Correspondent").Charles Winninger as the McCrae's father is quite good here, and it's a hoot seeing Broderick Crawford playing a slightly crooked butler.The story -- a former millionaire and his wealthy son have differences about how to spend the family fortune -- is funny, and occasionally a tad silly...but I guess that's what screwball comedies are supposed to be. Some of the dialog is pretty clever, other times it devolves into being foolish, but overall it's a pretty good story.Recommended for a watch, but it probably won't end up on your DVD shelf.

My mouth was agape throughout this screwball comedy. The reason: this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I was about to say that there isn't a single good joke or scene in the entire embarrassing movie, by, Ah Ha, I thought of one: there is a scene where several process servers are looking for the hiding Charles Winninger. Outside his office in the hall is Miriam Hopkins reading a letter of recommendation addressed to Winninger. Hearing her speech, the process servers mistakenly race down the stairs, thinking Winninger went that way. Believe it or not, that is the only decent scene in the movie. Everything else makes one cringe -- implausible silly story, terrible pratfalls and scrambles in a tree, nothing dialog, childish drunken scenes, etc. To give a feeling as to how bad everything is, Joel McCrae is returning to his mansion from a trip abroad. Hopkins is pretending to be a friend of his father. She recruits two friends to be servants though they know nothing about how to act as servants. Broderick Crawford is in his old movie usher uniform that is supposed to be a butler's uniform, and Hopkins is cutting out the movie theater patches as McCrae is knocking on the door. Meanwhile, through most of the movie, Winninger is living in the mansion, though he hides from his son McCrae because Winninger is supposed to be away. Excruciating. As someone said, see it only if you are die-hard McCrae or Hopkins fans.

Miriam Hopkins is Virginia Travis, the starving, ambitious, headstrong architect trying to get an assignment from broke millionaire BJ Nolan (Charles Winninger). Joel McCrea is Nolan's sensible, conservative son, who must be convinced to help Virginia on a scheme. Note Erik Rhodes as "Henri Saffron".. .he does the same, silly foreign accent that he did as the interloper in all those Fred Astaire films. There are some clever lines in the script, but a lot of it is just over- the- top sight gags and three stooges-type pratfall humor. Much of the time, it feels like the timing is off, or something. Some bad editing in several places, where scenes are held out too long, right before or after a film cut. This was one of the last films directed by John Blystone - he died the next year. According to IMDb, there were numerous writers working on this (fixing it?), including Dorothy Parker and Ben Hecht. It's watchable, but can't give it very high marks.

Woman (Miriam Hopkins as Virginia) chases Man (Joel McCrea as Kenneth) for father (Charles Winninger as B.J.). Woman wants to get Man to invest some of deceased mother's money in father's business venture; but, father is notorious for losing money on hair-brained schemes. Little does anyone know, but real evil schemers are posing as Man's best friends in order to steal his fortune...The production looks engaging, but the story fails to engage. The players don't play drunk well. Notable as Broderick Crawford's first appearance - as gopher "Hunk"; other than running errands, Mr. Crawford gets pinned to the floor by Mr. McCrea. *** Woman Chases Man (4/28/37) John G. Blystone ~ Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Charles Winninger, Broderick Crawford