Review of When the Clouds Roll by

Some spoilers herein.

Yes, it's true, this is one of the weirdest movies ever put before a

camera. Let's see, it starts with a maniacal doctor informing his

students that he is going to kill a man in the interest of science.

Then we meet his intended victim, the dashing but horribly

superstitious and paranoid Douglas Fairbanks, who eats for

dinner onion, lobster and mince meat pie, only to have these

dishes dance about in his stomach, causing a stomach ache.

Doug then goes to bed and has a strange dream where he is

chased by the same food he just ate. During the dream, he

fore-runs Fred Astair's antics in Royal Wedding by walking up a

wall and then across a ceiling, and quite convincingly.

So, from there, the craziness only increases. Doug leaps over

dining tables, hangs from cross-beams by his feet, climbs up the

side of his apartment building because a black cat crosses his

path and ends up impersonating an insane asylum official.

There's a huge deal made about an opal ring, a pretty blonde, a

climactic flood and did we mention that it's a musical? Well, it's

not actually a musical. But it does have everything else. And it's

hard to find, too. Go look for it.