Leads Supporting Featured The Philadelphia Inquirer critic Linton Martin noted "'Ramshackle Inn' is the cluttered and confusing kind of play that would be difficult and dangerous to describe in detail".

It turns out to be a rundown, vermin-infested shambles, tenented by a murderous liquor-cutting gang, kidnappers, undercover FBI agents and soon after her arrival, a growing number of corpses.

By play's end she has captured all the crooks still living and proved the innocence of the unjustly accused son of the previous owner so he can marry his sweetheart.

The producer then took the unusual step of having the revised production do a four-day tryout at Blair Junior High School auditorium in Norfolk, Virginia.

[24] Both local reviewers felt the acting and direction were ok, that star ZaSu Pitts provided sufficient drawing power, but the play itself was flawed.

Arthur Pollock of The Brooklyn Eagle said of ZaSu Pitts and the play that it was "no pearl of the comic spirit, but she is a charming buffoon and there are many people who will find the thing funny with her in it".

[1] John Chapman in the Daily News concurred with other reviewers that Miss Pitts' performance was the main draw, but also mentioned some able support from Joe Downing, Richard Rober, and Harlan Briggs.

[4] He called Ramshackle Inn a "tumbledown play" and noted that the audience could only have "a merely mildly exciting time as the plot unfolded like one of Miss Pitts' knee joints".

By the end of March 1944, Ramshackle Inn had reached its 100th performance, paid off all its production and tryout costs, and was still raking in between twelve and eighteen thousand dollars a week.

[29] Ramshackle Inn was adapted to an hour-long teleplay for the The Philco Television Playhouse, with ZaSu Pitts, Joe Downing, Ralph Theadore, and Robert Toms reprising their roles.

[30] It was broadcast live on January 2, 1949,[31] and featured Nancy Davis as Mary Temple, Vivian Vance as Joyce Rogers, Gordon Peters as Constable Small, with Lewis Charles, Richard Bishop, Michael Lawson, Joseph Sweeny, and Don De Leo.