Lots of fun, recurring gags... the President calling the daughter's suitor "Sweetheart", and they even make jokes and chuckle about it. It's W.C. FIelds, so of course he does his act with the hat and cane getting caught on just everything in sight. Fields is the president of Klopstokia, and the fuller brush salesman wants to marry the president's daughter. Entering the Los Angeles olympics could solve all their budget issues. Some fun gags where the train takes a wrong turn and ends up in San Francisco by mistake. The spy Mata Machree makes a date with everyone on the olympic team to distract them. Some really clever lines, written by Mankiewicz, Hecht, Myers, and Barrows for Paramount. Co-stars Jack Oakie, Lyda Roberti, Susan Fleming. It's a little dated, but just plain fun. The editing is a little choppy, but we're lucky just to have a good copy of this still around. Fields had done a couple silents, but this was one of his early talkies. A couple naughty, quick lines that would soon be banned by the film code in a couple years. They DO show this on Turner Classics now and then. But rarely. Directed by Ed Cline, master of comedy.
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