Small-time con man Eddie Hall hides from his latest victim and a policeman in the first unlocked apartment he can find.

[2] Harlow and Gable's other films together include The Secret Six (1931), China Seas (1935), both with Wallace Beery, Wife vs. Secretary (1936) with Myrna Loy and James Stewart, and Saratoga (1937) with Lionel Barrymore.

'"[7] Critics were aware that the studio was trying to have its cake and eat it too, by presenting scandalous behavior early in the film, which is then justified by the punishment the characters are made to suffer later on—a pattern that would become endemic under the Production Code.

The film critic for Variety wrote, "earlier sequences have plenty of ginger, but the torrid details are handled with the utmost discretion while conveying a maximum of effect.

"[2] and Frank Nugent in The New York Times wrote, "The sudden transition from hard-boiled wisecracking romance to sentimental penitence provides a jolt.

"[2] Nevertheless, the critics praised Harlow and Gable, and the film was a smashing box office success, grossing $1.1 million ($654,000 in the US and Canada and $419,000 elsewhere[1]) on a budget of $260,000—a profit of $433,000.