Million Dollar Legs 05/16/26

Paramount’s catch-all comedy makes zero sense but has a great attitude. It showcases a number of eager funnymen from Vaudeville and silent comedies: W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Ben Turpin, Hugh Herbert, Billy Gilbert. Top-billed Jack Oakie is in love with Klopstokian lass Angela; all of her fellow citizens are super-athletes, so he brings a bunch to Los Angeles to compete in the Olympic Games, Ice or no Ice. Silly shenanigans are the rule but everybody shines. Slinky songstress vamp Lyda Roberti gets away with a sizzling ‘cooch’ dance number with the lyrics, “It’s terrific when I get hot!”  The story is by none other than future writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. On Blu-ray from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

05/16/26