Drusilla Wills wins second prize in a whist competition. It's a continental holiday, all expenses paid. She and husband Leslie Fuller take the train to Spain, where he gets into a fight with toreador Ernest Sefton, and winds up stealing the Spaniards clothes. On arrival, Fuller is acclaimed as the famed bull fighter, and vamped by senorita Binnie Barnes in the funniest sequence in the movie. Of course he will have to fight a bull.....
Although Fuller's earlier vehicles for British International were mostly directed by Monty Banks, this one has Lupino Lane at the helm. I thought it was largely a stage show performed on movie sets, which would explain why the fierce beast Fuller faces is a pantomime bull. It's also largely why I did not find it as amusing as other reviewers. Although Lane puts in some good visual comedy (including shots that show off Fuller's sizable rear end, and a comedy song), Fuller's comedy is largely verbal here, and his character is poorly defined. I found it erratically amusing rather than consistently funny. With Wallace Lupino and an uncredited bit by future writer-director Val Guest as a reporter.
Although Fuller's earlier vehicles for British International were mostly directed by Monty Banks, this one has Lupino Lane at the helm. I thought it was largely a stage show performed on movie sets, which would explain why the fierce beast Fuller faces is a pantomime bull. It's also largely why I did not find it as amusing as other reviewers. Although Lane puts in some good visual comedy (including shots that show off Fuller's sizable rear end, and a comedy song), Fuller's comedy is largely verbal here, and his character is poorly defined. I found it erratically amusing rather than consistently funny. With Wallace Lupino and an uncredited bit by future writer-director Val Guest as a reporter.