Million Dollar Legs

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Aug 16 This stands with the best of 1930's comedies - shoulder to shoulder with the cream of the Marx Bros. and "The Front Page" .. Judith Crist talks lovingly about it in her "Citizen Kane" book and correctly places it at the top of surrealistic, absurd and chaotic classics with it's country Klopstockia the forerunner of cinematic kingdoms like Freedonia or Grand Fenwick. It may be Fields most defined performance in a movie that was not a W.C.Fields outing and Jack Oakie also. My two favorite segments are the Mata Macree siren ("the woman no man can resist") and the Olympic games footrace won by the old man in the goat suit. There is no letup in the sight gags throughout - many featuring classic silent screen comedians who are treated with proper respect and fit perfectly. Loved it when I was ten and seeing it again only reinforces that. See more Corocote L 09/12/2023 One of if not the best of WC Fields comedies. A surrealist expedition into a mythical world which was actually filmed in the L.A. Coliseum using facilities for the 1932 Olympics. Fields and Jack Oakie at the top of their games. See more david s 07/18/2022 Great fun that I can imagine the audiences of depression era helping to relieve their troubles See more 01/04/2018 Popeye has spinach, and Fields has... goats milk? Several excellent vignettes within this piece, including a few physical bits from Fields vaudeville days. See more 09/12/2017 Jack Oakie stars as an American brush salesman working in the tiny country of Klopstokia. He meets and fall in love with president W.C.Fields's daughter. He is rejected as a potential suitor until he convinces Fields that the nearly bankrupt country can get the money they need by sending a team to the Olympic games in Los Angeles. This seldom seen film is an absurdist masterpiece ... the slogan for Oakie's brush company is "They brush". Fields stays in office by defeating his cabinet in feats of strengths. This movie is the gift that keeps on giving. See more 05/12/2017 Quite possibly WC Fields funniest film. In the surreal anarchist frenzy of "Duck Soup"-with a faster pace. An underrated, somewhat unknown masterpiece. See more Read all reviews

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