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Million Dollar Legs

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The country of Klopstokia enters the Olympics, led by their president (W.C. Fields) who lifts weights.

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Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) One very off-the-wall movie that never for a moment bothers to make a great deal of sense. Rated: 4.5/5 Dec 22, 2011 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews It's loaded with sight gags, slapstick and physical humor. Rated: B+ Mar 29, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member 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. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/16/25 Full Review Corocote L 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. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/12/23 Full Review david s Great fun that I can imagine the audiences of depression era helping to relieve their troubles Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Popeye has spinach, and Fields has... goats milk? Several excellent vignettes within this piece, including a few physical bits from Fields vaudeville days. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Quite possibly WC Fields funniest film. In the surreal anarchist frenzy of "Duck Soup"-with a faster pace. An underrated, somewhat unknown masterpiece. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The country of Klopstokia enters the Olympics, led by their president (W.C. Fields) who lifts weights.
Director
Edward F. Cline
Producer
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Screenwriter
Nicholas T. Barrows, Henry Myers
Production Co
Paramount
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Feb 4, 2013
Runtime
1h 4m