Million Dollar Legs (1932)

Synopsis: W.C. Fields stars in this nutty film as president of the fictional country of Klopstokia. The country is badly in need of money, and Fields is under attack from his corrupt cabinet. Luckily, an... W.C. Fields stars in this nutty film as president of the fictional country of Klopstokia. The country is badly in need of money, and Fields is under attack from his corrupt cabinet. Luckily, an intrepid American brush salesman (Jackie Oakie) happens to fall in love with his daughter and is determined to save the day. After getting a look at the nearly superhuman Klopstokian citizenry (they can leap over houses and outrun motorcycles), he brings the country to Los Angeles for the Olympics. They look like the surefire victors until cabinet spy Mata Machree (Lyda Roberti) sets the team against each other with her seductive wiles. As directed by comedy maestro Edward F. Cline (NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK, THE BANK DICK), the laws of reality and gravity are never allowed to interfere with the parade of nonstop gags. The result is one of the craziest films of the 1930s; MILLION DOLLAR LEGS stands alongside classics like DUCK SOUP as a masterpiece of surreal comedy. [More]

Starring: Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti

Starring: Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Hank Mann, Susan Fleming, Ben Turpin, Hugh Herbert, George Barbier, Dickie Moore

Director: Edward Cline

Director: Edward Cline
Screenwriter: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Henry Myers

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