(Flash Review)
Keaton plays a professor who is told he inherited $750,000. Turns out that was not true. He travels to New York while being generous with money he doesn't have, thus burning through his savings. As he travels to New York, the professor falls for a beauty in a tacky musical that is out of funds. He decides to fund the show, with his new fabricated windfall, and take it to Broadway. Various women try to win him over for his money. Several gags about his lack of experience with the opposite sex and jokes about the professor's eloquent vocabulary and his hyper naivety world experience ensue. Will the show flop or hit the top and will his fabricated money derail opening night? This is full of light physical comedy and as with other Keaton films the story slowly builds into rapid fire laughable mishaps, which elicited some genuine laughter from me. This was pretty good yet lacks the amazing physical moments of Keaton in his silent era prime. This being an MGM production, many people say signing with MGM killed his best work and stunted his career.
Keaton plays a professor who is told he inherited $750,000. Turns out that was not true. He travels to New York while being generous with money he doesn't have, thus burning through his savings. As he travels to New York, the professor falls for a beauty in a tacky musical that is out of funds. He decides to fund the show, with his new fabricated windfall, and take it to Broadway. Various women try to win him over for his money. Several gags about his lack of experience with the opposite sex and jokes about the professor's eloquent vocabulary and his hyper naivety world experience ensue. Will the show flop or hit the top and will his fabricated money derail opening night? This is full of light physical comedy and as with other Keaton films the story slowly builds into rapid fire laughable mishaps, which elicited some genuine laughter from me. This was pretty good yet lacks the amazing physical moments of Keaton in his silent era prime. This being an MGM production, many people say signing with MGM killed his best work and stunted his career.