Looking back on his life with regret, the childless old goat millionaire Charles Coburn anonymously gives $100,000 to the family of his only true love. Masquerading as a surrealist painter in need of a room, Coburn visits his new family to make sure they spend the money wisely, and finds them abusing it to mostly tragic effect: gambling, bad stock tips, bad engagements, dumb poodles, and parties with multiple Santa Clauses. Set in small town Vermont in pre-Depression 1928, HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL is part of Douglas Sirk's underappreciated series of Americana musicals, which like his melodramas embrace the delicious hues of American excess while exposing its rotten core. Featuring the first of many legendary collaborations between Sirk and Rock Hudson, presented on the only known 35mm print in the country.