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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...
...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 may lose after all until W. C. Fields begins lifting weights. He loses his temper while doing so. This causes him to raise a 1,000 Ib. lump...
...mannerisms of his race. Questioned as to whom he knows in England, breezily says he : "Why, Lady Goldstein, Lord Cornbloom, Archbishop Shapiro . . ." and finding that his restaurant, pressing and trucking businesses are doing well, he inquires: "What's the matter, has Hoover resigned?" Assisting him in his antics is Lyda Roberti, a thin, blonde girl with a pronounced mid-European accent, carefully billed as the daughter of a famed Polish clown. Giddy, giggling Miss Roberti amiably submits to a great deal of gross mistreatment, puts one song ("Sweet & Hot") over after several other people in the cast have failed, generally...