SincereFinest
disgusting, overrated, pointless
SanEat
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
lge-946-225487
I enjoy most Wheeler and Woolsey movies, especially "Diplomaniacs." This is a good, representative sample of their work. I think it has an interesting plot, revolving around gangsters trying to steal jewels from our heroes' hotel safe. (As Irving Thalberg taught the Marx Brothers, just a lot of jokes and funny dialog isn't enough in a movie; there has to be a story driving it all, to keep the public's interest.)I enjoyed many of the bits of funny dialog made in passing, like these:When Wheeler first meets Dorothy Lee, he says, "My name is Wilbur." She responds, "I don't mind."While Wheeler is enchanted with Dorothy Lee, Woolsey is thinking of marrying the battle-axe mother. Someone says to him at one point, "I hope you do marry her mother, and she falls on you."A minor point: I enjoyed seeing Stanley Fields, who is always fun. He's the gruff-talking character actor who generally played gangsters and thugs, as he did for example in "Little Caesar," where he played Sam Vettori, head of the mob Edward G. Robinson joins. I also enjoyed seeing Hugh Herbert, though he has very little to do here.All in all, a pretty satisfying joke-and-drama fest.
Mike-764
Wilbur Boswell and Addington Ganzy abandon their insurance business (read scam) and enter the hotel business with Mary Marsh, who has runaway from home to escape her mother and the family's lawyer Blackwell, whom Mary is being forced to marry by her mother. Unknown to Mary, her mother, and Boswell & Ganzy, is that Blackwell is running a criminal organization and its main hideout is the basement of the hotel. Also coming to the hotel are every sort of criminal set out to crack the hotel safe, so its up to our two heroes, along with a bizarre house detective and the always sleeping bellboy to save the day. A very enjoyable and funny film from Wheeler and Woolsey with Dorothy Lee around again as Mary. As with the majority of the W&W films there are a bizarre bunch of characters and plenty of zaniness to please the audience. Great ending with the shootout. Rating, 8.
Snow Leopard
This comedy starts out very well with a promising set-up, and although it cannot maintain the same standard throughout, it's mostly entertaining, if rather silly. Wheeler and Woolsey make a pretty good comic team, and the complicated, deliberately implausible plot provides them with some good moments. Director Eddie Cline, better known for the comedies he made with Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields, keeps things on track.We are first introduced to the two leads in a funny scene where they try to talk a policeman out of giving them a ticket. Shortly afterwards, they are involved in all kinds of complications at a run-down hotel, involving a large cast of dubious characters. While the pace is a little uneven, it keeps your attention, and there are also a couple of clever lines of dialogue. While it doesn't quite fulfill its early promise, this is definitely worth a look if you enjoy comedies from the 30's.
montana-4
This is another in the long series of wacky slapstick comedies made by this pair of comic geniuses.
