Reel good, April 17 2004
I hadn't seen "Million Dollar Legs" since 1936, so I guess the title should have been changed to "Billion Dollar Legs," thanks to that boy we have in the White House now, so determined to cut us seniors social security after we fought in the war. Commonly of thought of as a Betty Grable vehicle, it is a Betty Grable vehicle like the Volkswagon is the People's Car. I mean, give me a break.God Almighty did I laugh at it after I bought it through Amazon! Fields drunk and trying to seduce a sea lion while his wife is asleep next to him is priceless. When she wakes up and sternly asks "Bill. Are you eating sardines in bed again," I thought I'd bust a gasket. Mae West appears briefly in drag as as the "bearded prospector." (Her name is listed as her prestage Rosa Luxenbourg in the credits.) Though scarcely on the screen for three minutes, she dominates with close ups of her cutting eyes and her answer to the cop who tries to arrest her for loitering. "I don't loiter, but I could with the right guy," she coos. "Say, where'd you come from?" "Up in them hills, them big pink ones over there." "Why'd you come here." "I ran out of cucumbers, my good man....and I'll delete the good if you give me a chance." The cop is played by soon to be vice president John Nance Garner. And the cannon firing, sheep slaughter, the prediction of global warming and goat romp will all live in my weathered old head. From 8 to 80 will adore this.
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