The Amazing Mr. Williams

Kenny Williams is a lieutenant on the homicide squad. His fiancée Maxine is the mayor’s secretary. The two of them have been engaged a long time. But the marriage never quite happens. Something comes up on every day they are to meet. Each time Kenny runs off to the job. Maxine grows tired of waiting. In the end she tries a way of her own. She sets about getting the man to the altar. Meanwhile there is a new murder case in hand. Kenny plunges into the investigation again. The tug of war between them goes on. Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell take the leads. The film was adapted from a play. Alexander Hall’s American film was finished in 1939.