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| ACTORS: | Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Susan Fleming |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Edward F. Cline |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 08 July, 1932 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 096898323031 |
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Reel good I hadn't seen "Million Dollar Legs" since 1936, so I guess the title should have been changed to "Billion Dollar Legs," thanks to that boy we have in the White House now, so determined to cut us seniors social security after we fought in the war. Commonly of thought of as a Betty Grable vehicle, it is a Betty Grable vehicle like the Volkswagon is the People's Car. I mean, give me a break.
God Almighty did I laugh at it after I bought it through Amazon!
Fields drunk and trying to seduce a sea lion while his wife is asleep next to him is priceless. When she wakes up and sternly asks "Bill. Are you eating sardines in bed again," I thought I'd bust a gasket.
Mae West appears briefly in drag as as the "bearded prospector." (Her name is listed as her prestage Rosa Luxenbourg in the credits.) Though scarcely on the screen for three minutes, she dominates with close ups of her cutting eyes and her answer to the cop who tries to arrest her for loitering.
"I don't loiter, but I could with the right guy," she coos.
"Say, where'd you come from?"
"Up in them hills, them big pink ones over there."
"Why'd you come here."
"I ran out of cucumbers, my good man....and I'll delete the good if you give me a chance."
The cop is played by soon to be vice president John Nance Garner.
And the cannon firing, sheep slaughter, the prediction of global warming and goat romp will all live in my weathered old head.
From 8 to 80 will adore this.
Way beyond screwball
Pauline Kael thought this was the single funniest film comedy she had ever seen, and she may be right. The film's plot is so insane that it makes most screwball comedies of the period look tame by comparison: the country of Klopstockia (whose president is WC Fields, and whose citizenry is mostly descended from goats) decides to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, and sends its greatest athlete (Jack Oakie). The jokes are so insane and fast you can barely keep up--it's like getting a Marx brothers movie that's all Groucho with no tedious business from Harpo or Chico (and DUCK SOUP is the only film that seems indeed even remotely similar). Watch for the song jack Oakie is asked to sing--and what it's printed on!
W.C. Fields as the president of the republic of Klopstokia
"Million Dollar Legs" is set in the fictional Republic of Klopstokia, where everyone is addicted to ports, babies can jump six feet and every adult can run the mile in a few seconds. So the government of President W.C. Fields decides to send a team to the Olympic Games in the United States. However, political intrigue, a "mysterious man" (cross-eyed Ben Turpin), and other domestic problems threaten to derail these grand plans. Based on a story by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, this 1932 film directed by Edward Cline has aspirations towards satire focus on the best athlete in Klopstokia, Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie), but does not quite get there. Instead the film pretty much relies on Keystone Cop style comedy gags, which is an ironic thing to do given that Paramount was trying to make a successful talking picture here. I do not find it at all surprising that putting Fields in an absurd universe does not work as well as when he is puncturing the bubbles of sanity. Still, this is the oldest W.C. Fields feature film currently available on tape and as good a place as any to start your way through the comedian's films.