MILLION DOLLAR LEGS
1932
Director: EDWARD F. CLINE
W.C. FIELDS, JACK OAKIE, LYDA ROBERTI
ALL SEATS $12.00
35MM PRESENTATION
This screening will also include the 1932 W.C. Fields short film "THE DENTIST", presented in a 35mm print from The Library of Congress
Brush salesman Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) is in Klopstokia, presumably to sell brushes. There, he meets and falls for the beautiful Angela (Susan Fleming), only to discover all the women there are named Angela. She's the daughter of the President (Fields, of course), who happens to be a champion weightlifter. Political intrigue, the Olympics, foreign debt, Mata Hari and underwater fisticuffs are all in order in this madcap romp, which is so crazy it might have inspired the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. Produced and written by Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz, who also wrote Citizen Kane and All About Eve. Go figure!
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures
