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Though only 29, McLendon refers to himself as "the old Scotchman" and, on the air, makes himself out to be a contemporary of octogenarian Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. Admiring fans send him gifts they think appropriate to his years, including a set of false teeth which he uses as a paperweight...
This turns out to be the high point of a slapdash Technicolored farce that should try the patience of all but the most ardent Hope fans. The film is a cluttered catchall of mossy gags, pratfalls and comedy routines dating back to Mack Sennett and before. Hope is still the fumbling poltroon, this time a ham actor who masquerades as a gentleman's gentleman in England, then becomes a real valet masquerading in the Wild West as a British earl. He caricatures snobbery and braggadocio, unfailingly spills tea trays all over an English hostess, unwittingly courts death...
...Kanin's Leo Mack (nicely played by Scott McKay) kicks up a fair amount of routine commotion, but he is miles behind any of a dozen Ring Lardner heels. In fact the whole setup, only substituting sex for ice hockey, recalls Dan Baxter and the brothers Rover. Sex-with almost willful bad taste-is worked for any laugh it can raise, at any level...
Gloria Swanson, in a role which, at first blush, seems to hew ticklishly close to her own lifeline, gets a chance to mimic a parasol-twirling Mack Sennett bathing beauty, to impersonate Charlie Chaplin (as she did in 1924's Manhandled) and to burst into dazzling emotional pyrotechnics. It is as juicy a part as any actress could hope for, and Actress Swanson squeezes the last drop from...
After spurning repeated offers to film his life, the Philadelphia Athletics' Owner-Manager Connie Mack, 87, finally let Hollywood start work on his biography. Said he: "The picture, as I understand it, will not be based wholly on baseball, but will also contain incidents of interest to women and children...