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English. Million Dollar Legs is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields, directed by Edward F. Cline, produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz (co-writer of Citizen Kane) and B.P. Schulberg, co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and released by Paramount Pictures.
Sep 16, 2019 · 59:37. Million Dollar Legs. by. Herman J Mankiewicz (uncredited) Topics. comedies, screwball comedies, farce, satire, pre-code, 1932 Olympics, W C Fields, Jack Oakie, Andy Clyde, Susan Fleming, Lyda Roberti, Ben Turpin, Hugh Herbert, Billy Gilbert (uncredited) Publisher. Paramount.
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Introducing second-billed W.C. Fields, president of Klopstokia, dueling with a Dictaphone when he’s intercepted by smitten salesman Tweeny (Jack Oakie), and we soon discover his crush (Susan Fleming) is the president’s daughter, in Million Dollar Legs, 1932, from a story by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
- Edward Cline
- Jack Oakie
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.
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- Edward F. Cline
- Comedy
- W.C. Fields
Feb 17, 2019 · February 17, 2019 | 1 Comment. By Betsy Sherman. Does the movie have anything to say about our zeitgeist? Well, the very entertaining cabinet-meeting sequence shows that chamber to be a place of male posturing, humiliation, sado-masochism, duplicity, and, finally, abject sycophancy. Million Dollar Legs.
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a triumph of satire, depending on your mood, but it's quite possibly the funniest movie ever made, and becomes even funnier with subsequent viewings. — Carl Schultz. Synopsis.
