W.C. Fields plays the President of Klopstokia, a bankrupt European country that makes a bid for fame and fortune by entering it's top athletes in the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Directed by Edward Cline (The Bank Dick, 1940) and co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve, 1950), this madcap, Pre-Code comedy is one of W.C. Fields's most anarchic satires and includes scene stealing performances by comic character actors Jack Oakie, Billy Gilbert, Hugh Herbert and Ben Turpin.
Actors:
Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Susan Fleming, Billy Gilbert, Vernon Dent, Teddy Hart, John Sinclair, Sam Adams, Irving Bacon, Ernie S. Adams, Ben Turpin, Hugh Herbert, George Barbier, Dickie Moore, Herman Brix, Ben Taggart, Hank Mann, Chick Collins, Sid Saylor, Edgar Dearing, Al Bridge, Heine Conklin, Hobart Bosworth