Million Dollar Legs (1932 film)

Million Dollar Legs is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields, directed by Edward F. Cline, produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz (co-writer of Citizen Kane) and B.P.

While visiting the mythical country of Klopstokia on business, brush salesman Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) collides with a young woman (Susan Fleming) on the street and the two fall instantly in love.

In 1932, The New York Times' reviewer described the film as "a hopefully mad sort of picture ... where a series of comedians conducted themselves with a total lack of dignity.

"[1] After a June 2010 screening in Tribeca, The New Yorker writer David Denby described the film's odd, fragmented structure as well as its overall surreal tone: Million Dollar Legs...is about as close as Hollywood (in this case, Paramount) ever came to the spirit of Dada.

Sequences begin and end abruptly; lovers talk parodistic nonsense to each other; Lyda Roberti, a comic dancer and singer with a delicious pan-European accent and alarmingly active hips (she makes Kim Cattrall look inhibited), turns up as a femme fatale, apparently based on Marlene Dietrich.