Flirtation Walk (1934)

Academy Awards, USA 1935

Nominee Oscar	Best Picture
	Best Sound, Recording Nathan Levinson (sound director)

First National Pictures
Directed by Frank Borzage
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Dick Powell is an Army private with a penchant for singing and a reputaion for goofing off while on the job. He is assigned to drive the general's daughter to a party, but instead takes her to a romantic moonlight parking spot and a nearby luau. They instantly regret their impulsive kiss, both pretending to not really care. Her fiance, an officer, is not so easily fooled, so Powell decides to go to West Point to get even and become an officer. To everyone's surprise he succeeds. For graduation he writes a play dramatizing his love for the general's daughter. She shows up in time to play the part. They have an on-stage kiss which rekindles their old feelings and sets in motion the expected happy ending. Part saccharine romance, part documentary on West Point, with Powell miscast and looking lost.