Gable and Lombard's only film together is a pre-Production Code comedy that brings out the wry and risqué screwball in both of them. Gable portrays the gambler Babe Stewart, a “hit and run guy” (“never going to have to comb any dame out of my hair”) who rescues librarian Lombard from her dreary small-town existence and decides he doesn't want to run anymore. Gable got top billing, but as director Wesley Ruggles stated years later (in Larry Windell, Screwball, quoted by Leonard Maltin, Carole Lombard), “Carole was the revelation. Somebody complained that she didn't seem to be acting, which was one hell of a complaint.... Look at the picture today. It's dated, but her work hasn't. She's very fresh. She's playing straight, but using comedy technique too.... She was wonderful, but it just passed by (the critics).” Ruggles notes, “(The) first part of the picture has a lot of realistic comedy crammed in, and this was exactly what we had decided to work for. Carole and Clark both knew exactly what they were doing.”