Audiences in 1938 stayed away from this generally witty adaptation of Philip Barry's play about a 30-year-old 'self-made man' who plans to retire and be free from responsibilities (perhaps it was the hardships of the Depression that, by contrast, made the picture seem out-of-touch?). Cary Grant (with a thick head of black Brylcreem'd hair) performs amiably in the underwritten lead, discovering his fiancée is the daughter of a wealthy banker, a man who'd prefer his future son-in-law to go into business with him. Katharine Hepburn plays Grant's prospective sister-in-law, who finds herself drawn to his carefree nature despite all her resistance. Opens on a light, frivolous note, but becomes more substantial and interesting in its final third. George Cukor directed, allowing the characters room to blossom and change, although some of his asides (such as Hepburn's emotional visit to professor Edward Everett Horton's apartment, or the curiously dissatisfied nature of her embittered brother) stick out as odd concepts which don't quite come off. **1/2 from ****