Hot Water is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane and Spring Byington. It is part of the Jones Family series of films. The Jones father decides to run for mayor, leading the current incumbent to try to disgrace his son.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Chester Gore.
Critical reception
Modern Screen’s Leo Townsend noted that this was the latest film in a popular series, and commented, "If you’ve seen one of these family flickers, you’ve seen them all", and he attributed their success to the "true picturizations of the average American home life." He wrote fondly of the returning characters and concluded with the observation, "Plot and production are of relative unimportance in these pictures, compared to the true-to-life characterizations of the cast, which could hardly be improved upon in any case."
Motion Picture Herald wrote, "Having continued through five pictures, the entertainment worth and commercial value of
"The Jones Family" series, particularly, as neighborhood and small town theatre attractions, is generally recognized. Clean, wholesome, comic and gayly exciting that manner in which they treat of domestic comedy, drama and romance is intimately familiar."