The unlikely combination of Howard Hughes, Preston Sturges, and Harold Lloyd produced this very funny, and very rarely shown film, which was never really released in 1947 outside a few cities. The original Variety trade review gives a fair sense of the film's qualities:
“Film segues expertly from the Freshman footage to the new product, showing Raymond Walburn, as an enthusiastic alumnus, now head of a top ad agency, promising Lloyd a job for having won the game. Lloyd takes the job after graduation but is stuck immediately into a minor bookkeeper's niche, where he remains forgotten for 22 years. Walburn finally remembers him long enough to fire him - which is where the fun starts. Lloyd, deep in the dumps, bumps into a racetrack tout who talks him into having his first drink. With a load on, he parlays a 15-1 bet into several hundred G's, throws his money around by buying a hansom cab and a bankrupt circus and then wakes up to find he's broke. In some zany slapstick, he sells the circus at a neat profit and wins the seventh in a series of sisters he's been courting over the 22-year stretch.
“Abetted by some excellent dialog from Sturges' pen, Lloyd handles his role in his usual funny fashion. One sequence, in which he dangles from a leash 80 stories above the sidewalk, with the other end of the leash tied to a nervous lion, is standout. The king of beasts is utilized for a number of other funny sequences. Rest of the cast, under Sturges' able direction, backs him capably....”