Million Dollar Legs (1932) review

In the fictitious nation of Klopstokia - where all the men have the same name (George) as do the women (Angela) and there are spies everywhere - salesman Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) knocks over a young woman (Susan Fleming) and tells her he loves her immediately (there's no feeling out period with this guy) but when he goes to meet her Father, the President (W.C. Fields), he finds out the country needs millions ... so they enter the Olympics.  Almost everything with Fields is a riot - and he uses a lot of tricks he learned from vaudeville - but that's the problem: he's only a side character, and the "love connection" with the leads doesn't hold it together ... and then there's the wacky inclusion of "irresistible" Mata Machree (Lyda Roberti) who's hired to seduce the athletes.  It has its defenders, however, and there's something to be said about embracing absurdity; it's most likely the strangest work in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's typically serious oeuvre.