Possibly the very best of Wheeler and Woolsey's dozen or so films, it is without a doubt their most imaginative. They are traveling con- men, with Woolsey trying desperately to prevent kleptomaniac Wheeler from stealing everything in sight. After facing a crowd of vegetable pelters while in the stockades, they manage to escape and pose as the king's physicians while Woolsey flirts with the baron's wife (a luscious Thelma Todd) while Wheeler becomes involved with Peter Pan look-alike Dorothy Lee. But with baron Noah Beery's protective huge dog playing watch on Todd, Woolsey is certain to be caught. Enter the wild boar...
This musical farce is filled with plenty of sexual innuendo and some really unique ways of presenting the songs and dances. Franklin Pangborn gets things started as the town crier in a set-up that shows lascivious duke Robert Greig ogling town beauties in rhythm as niece Todd responds in kind. The four leads cavort together with the infectious "Dilly Dally", and the recent "Big Bad Wolf" song from Disney is parodied brilliantly. Add on a chase sequence involving the most vicious of wild boars, and you've got one of the best written and clever comedies that even manages a joke at the expense of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".
This musical farce is filled with plenty of sexual innuendo and some really unique ways of presenting the songs and dances. Franklin Pangborn gets things started as the town crier in a set-up that shows lascivious duke Robert Greig ogling town beauties in rhythm as niece Todd responds in kind. The four leads cavort together with the infectious "Dilly Dally", and the recent "Big Bad Wolf" song from Disney is parodied brilliantly. Add on a chase sequence involving the most vicious of wild boars, and you've got one of the best written and clever comedies that even manages a joke at the expense of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".