Why Screen..."Million Dollar Legs" (1932) ?

Because it is "pre-code"comedy and as such is pitched at a slightly more adult audience, and mostly because its literally the only film in W.C. Fields'surviving catalogue wherein The Great Man plays a person of influence, the President of the Balkan Duchy of Klopstokia. Of course in the whole of Western Civilization no Chief Executive, President Prime Minster or Duce, has ever had to hold on to power by prevailing in the Summer Olympics weightlifting competition! That may frenz is the very spirit of Dada come to roost in the Hollywood Hills. It is also a prime illustration of Moe Howard's dictum that the very sole of comedy emerges in a Hegelian sense from the Annihilation of Dignity. Director Eddie Cline was a frequent collaborator with Fields, he would subsequently direct two of The Great Man's Best Films, "The Bank Dick" & "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break". The rest of the cast includes beefy Jack Oakie (in a rare purely romantic Lead) and veritable cavalry charge of slapstick comedians, Cross Eyed Ben Turpin, spindly Andy Clyde and the ever excitable Hugh Herbert among others. It is the sort of film they don't make anymore, a slapstick farce with a strong overlay of pure satire, hell they weren't making many of these back in the day, so this is a rare opportunity to reacquaint oneself with the Incomparable Comedy of W.C. Fields, don't miss it!! The Somerville Theatre (micro-cinema) Friday, February 22nd 8pm (sharp!) 55 Davis Square Somerville Ma. Admission $7.50 (Cheap! Cash Only) 617) 625-5700 Note Tickets go on sale thirty minutes or so before showtime outside the Micro Cinema downstairs at the Somerville Theatre