Buster Keaton changed studios but should have found someone who knew how to make Buster Keaton movies.
There is a Hollywood cliché that no one ever set out to make a bad movie (except perhaps Mel Brooks), but it's hard to believe no one could foretell how terrible this movie would be.
Great actors, including Keaton, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and the unknown today Trixie Friganza, try very hard, but the script is so scrambled, it makes almost no sense.
Bad as it is, it is interesting for some of the cameo appearances by some major stars, and to see that the athletic and acrobatic Keaton could make even the worst scripts occasionally enjoyable.
There is a Hollywood cliché that no one ever set out to make a bad movie (except perhaps Mel Brooks), but it's hard to believe no one could foretell how terrible this movie would be.
Great actors, including Keaton, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and the unknown today Trixie Friganza, try very hard, but the script is so scrambled, it makes almost no sense.
Bad as it is, it is interesting for some of the cameo appearances by some major stars, and to see that the athletic and acrobatic Keaton could make even the worst scripts occasionally enjoyable.