The famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes.
Is this worth the trouble? If you're into the kind of 1930s slapstick that moves faster than the plot can keep up with, you'll probably have a blast. People who hate movies where the 'hero' is just a guy screaming at walls until things work out should probably stay far away. It’s loud. It’s frantic. It’s very, very old...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Walter Lang
Maurice Campbell
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"Is this worth the trouble? If you're into the kind of 1930s slapstick that moves faster than the plot can keep up with, you'll probably have a blast. People who hate movies where the 'hero' is just a guy screaming at walls until things work out should probably stay far away. It’s loud. It’s frantic. It’s very, very old. There's this moment early on where the sheer scale of the confusion just hits you. You’ve got Jack Pearl playing the fake Baron, and he’s doing this manic, high-energy thing tha..."
Norman Krasna, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Allen Rivkin, P.J. Wolfson, Arthur Kober, Billy K. Wells
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