Director: Norman Z. McLeod Year: 1934 Run-time: 1 hr 9 min - It's not easy to root for W.C. Fields' character in this film, given how much of a jerk he is, but in the end I was won over by his understated comedy. I'd read beforehand that his routines were honed (and even patented), but this film has a much more improvisational feel than something like Duck Soup , so I found that surprising. The film is rarely riotously funny, but it did manage to win us over in the end.
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