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Million Dollar Legs (Paramount) is a Marx brothers comedy without the Marx Brothers. Instead it has Jack Oakie, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Lyda Roberti and an attractive ingénue named Susan Fleming to play opposite Oakie. William Claude Fields is the President of a place called Klopstokia, a small and ludicrous country in which all the citizens are adept at running, jumping, diving and lifting weights. If all the athletes in Klopstokia lay end to end they would reach 432 miles. Angela (Susan Fleming) tells Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) that she is sure of this because the athletes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...plot which Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Henry Myers wrote for Million Dollar Legs has something to do with the Olympic games. In order to enrich the treasury of Klopstokia, Migg Tweeny, visiting the country in the capacity of brush salesman, decides to take its amazingly able-bodied citizenry to Los Angeles. His plans to win all the events in the Olympics are impeded somewhat by a spy, in league with the cabinet members. She, Mata Machree (Lyda Roberti), makes friends with all the members of the team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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