Add up a handsome slickster with money-hungry eyes, a severely repressed spinster with no prospects, plus her wealthy aging mother with a dislike for business—and we've got prime grist for Hitch's TV mill. Sure, the concept is a familiar one, but it's always fun to see how things will eventually work into proper alignment.
Johnson's good as the con-man, just oily enough. Still, his ending most every line with a sly "heh, heh, heh" had me expecting Wiley Coyote to pop up. But it's really Fitzgerald's entry. Starting out as a grim middle-age wallflower, she's almost scary in her severity. Wisely, the screenplay has Johnson slowly insinuating upon her since her suspicions are naturally up when a man pays her attention. Instead Johnson aims his charm on dowager Bainter who suspects nothing. Turns out that the old lady really hates business matters, so when her attorney turns up conveniently dead, guess who she turns to. So what could go wrong for our clever fortune hunter, especially now that the spinster has let her hair down and is responding romantically. Tune in to find out how Hitch manages to balance the scales, even when the law doesn't.