MGM
August 13, 1932
Comedy
DVD
C+
While this is never as funny as it promises to be, it's an amiable enough movie, both as pre-Code saucy as Thelma Todd (cast to type as someone with "sex appeal") and as bumblingly innocent as Buster Keaton playing an unworldly professor. Jimmy Durante tells a lot of deliberately bad jokes, and the film meanders, but it's a pleasant 80 minutes or so. (And a time capsule of course, with "drag" used in the "Varsity Drag" sense.) Edward Sedgwick directed.
