Word: roulien
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...Great to Be Alive (Fox) is a musicomedy with one sound farce idea. All the men in the world die of a disease called "masculitis." Women hold the best jobs while a lady President heads the U. S. Government. Then a solitary male (Raul Roulien), thought to have died at the end of the second reel, reappears. He is captured by lady racketeers and held for auction, taken over by lady "Federal men'' who plan to preserve him as government property. A world conference finally disposes...
Unfortunately, when this straightforward burlesque starts the film is half over. Earlier and duller footage develops a love affair between Roulien, an Argentinian with a heavy boulevard manner, and wistful Gloria Stuart. Best of the numerous songs he sings about her is called "I'll Build a Nest." Funniest shot: Edna May Oliver, head of the Academy of Medical Science, gravely superintending the manu facture of a synthetic...
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