[Bounci]

This week it's back to the Pre-Code era, and this unusually titled film could equally be called "Is my backside red?" as star Ricardo Cortez gets to pat not one but TWO ladies bottoms in this film. He plays a news columnist looking for juicy gossip for his paper, only to witness a murder and set about exposing the criminal. In the first scene in this video, he is backstage at a show where his girlfriend (Helen Twelvetrees) is performing (She is the blonde being hoisted in the air by a group of stage hands). Naturally being Pre Code there are lots of scantily dressed showgirls running about, and after Cortez gets tempted by the view of one girl bending over, he then sees a 'face' he recognizes and slaps her bum as a friendly greeting. Sadly, I don't know the name of the actress playing the showgirl, but she is most put out about his story about her relationship with a rich businessman as it cost her 'career' with her sugar daddy.

The actress in the next bum patting scene I do know the name of, and that is Arline Judge. She plays Cortez's secretary and he takes all the perks that go with the job, asking how old she is, then patting her bum and saying "Remind me someday to give you a break." "I've had a break, honey," she wisecracks back. In real life Judge married 7 times in her life, while leading man Cortez was in the original version of The Maltese Falcon in 1931 as Sam Spade, a part immortalized 10 years later by Humphrey Bogart.