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Million Dollar Legs is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward F. Cline released in USA on 8 july 1932 with Jack Oakie
Million Dollar Legs (1932)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 8 july 1932
Length 59minutes
Directed by Edward F. Cline
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Themes Monde imaginaire
Rating67%
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. Schulberg, co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and released by Paramount Pictures. The movie was inspired by the 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles.
Synopsis
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. Her name is Angela—all the women in Klopstokia are named Angela—and she is the daughter of Klopstokia's President (W. C. Fields), whose country is bankrupt, and who relies upon his great physical strength to dominate a cabinet that is conspiring to overthrow him. Tweeny, hoping to win the hand of The President's daughter in marriage, presents him with a plan to remedy Klopstokia's financial woes: The President is to enter the 1932 Summer Olympics, win the weightlifting competition, and collect a large cash reward that has been offered to medalists by Tweeny's employer. Tweeny then sets out to find athletes to make up Klopstokia's Olympic team, and quickly discovers that the country abounds in athletes of preternatural abilities. The team, with Tweeny as their trainer, boards a steamship bound for America.Actors
Jack Oakie
(Migg Tweeny)
W. C. Fields
(The President)
Andy Clyde
(The Major-Domo)
Lyda Roberti
(Mata Machree)
George Barbier
(Mr. Baldwin)
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