There were a number of light-hearted jokes in the film, e.g., (1) the film""s running joke about the American correspondent""s embarrassing loss of his distinctive and respectable English bowler hat three times - it was stolen, left in a cab, and blown off in he wind, and (2) a rattled pedestrian trying to cross a busy village street.Director George Cukor""s film, his first with Greta Garbo, was also thefirsttalking version of the content." She observes that she can support herself by harmlessly manipulating a rich man with the allure and power of her feminine beauty - one of the film""s major themes:"But that""s what""s so irritating." The well-dressed man, Charles Weston (Sam Hardy), a theatrical agent, is invited on board the vessel by First Mate Jack (John) Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) and is told: "Come on board.Many reviewers have commented upon how the musical was also not a very accurate historical representation of the Canadian Mounted Police, or of the hypnotic ethnic sequence known as the "Totem Tom Tom" Indian dance.