The producers have done rather well on all counts.

| Apr 22, 2024

A mad and merry comedy.

| Apr 22, 2024

The Mad Miss Manton is a comedy belonging to that late un- lamented school of folderol which had, one supposes, already been given a decent burial. But R.-K.-O. presents it as though it were something brand new.

| Apr 22, 2024

The dialog is pat and believably delivered, while situations surprise and intrigue the observer. Clean, clever, comical.

| Apr 22, 2024

Barbara Stanwyck's portrayal of the slightly wacky Melsa Menton is a captivating performance. Henry Fonda is excellent, too, although his Peter Ames is a strange newspaper editor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 22, 2024

In a sense it holds the interest -- as indeed it might well, for it picks the brains if not the teeth of half the smart fellows who ever borrowed a sure-fire line or incident from a smarter fellow who had seen it in the original plagiarism.

| Apr 22, 2024

It is funny stuff.

| Apr 22, 2024

With Barbara Stanwyck and a Corporal’s guard of society girls probing murders and tying the police department into sailors’ knots, The Mad Miss Manton puts in the best bid on the screwball society angle since My Man Godfrey left audiences chuckling.

| Apr 22, 2024

Besides Barbara Stanwyck as a testy, tempestuous, clue and corpse chasing deb, the film represents as handsome a group of beauties as we ever remember seeing brought together outside a chorus of Glorified Goldwyn Girls or a Busby Berkeley ensemble.

| Apr 22, 2024

The action is fast and furious. laughs are plentiful, acting good.

| Apr 22, 2024

Do not be misled by the title. This is not a return to the crazy comedy formula, though there are times when it hovers on the’ brink of that vogue to which we recently bid a not too fond farewell.

| Apr 22, 2024

There is little coherency in the narrative, but it runs smoothly if ridiculously on its course, taking in a tense moment or two on its way in one of these dramatic episodes.

| Apr 22, 2024

Decidedly amusing and wacky whodunit, with interweave of screwball romance and mystery.

| Apr 22, 2024

Miss Manton is high spirited, and the film, taking its queue from her, keeps its spirits up.

| Apr 22, 2024

[Barbara Stanwyck] and a posse of bird-witted debutantes have a lot of fun playing bloodhounds in search of a missing corpse and ganging up on a defenseless newspaper editor.

| Apr 22, 2024

[The Mad Miss Manton] has some brisk dialogue and all in all, is a pretty fair mystery farce.

| Apr 22, 2024

This is the kind of movie that helped kill the screwball genre.

| Apr 17, 2024

The whodunit tangles tend to overstay their welcome, but Nick Musuraca's dark-toned camerawork leavens the screwball comedy with genuine menace; and Philip G Epstein's dialogue provides a witty undertow of fun poked at the class war.

| Apr 17, 2024

This 1938 mix of My Man Godfrey and The Thin Man is moderately entertaining but doesn’t really come off, perhaps because the stars seem to be playing each other’s types.

| Nov 16, 2004