![]() ![]() Wheeler & Miss Lee sing ∝ance And The World Dances With You.'Ĭracked Nuts is a Wheeler and Woolsey vaudeville-type comedy made during the downward spiral of the depression. Movie mavens will recognize Silent Cinema comic Ben Turpin as the cross-eyed bombardier. Once again, his lines let him down & give him very little to work with he gives no hints in this RKO film as to the legend he would very shortly become at Universal Studios. Boris Karloff appears as a financier trying to foment revolution. Far better roles would await Miss Oliver in years to come & she would not disappoint. Interestingly, there is no interaction between her character & Woolsey, as might be expected. The formidable Edna May Oliver does what she can in the role of Miss Lee's dragon aunt, but she deserves much better dialogue to be really effective. ![]() ![]() Dorothy Lee is, appropriately, Wheeler's love interest, but she gets little to do except look kewpie-doll-cute. Unfortunately, their co-stars are given few lines with any life. They are never boring & always funny (their El Dorinda map routine, with fierce general & villain Stanley Fields, will remind viewers of the Brothers Marx). Which is all to the good as far as the Boys are concerned, as it gives them ample opportunity to sling the dialogue at each other, fast & furious. Wheeler & Woolsey, America's greatest forgotten comedy team - Burt Wheeler was the short guy with curly hair, Robert Woolsey had the spectacles & cigar - find themselves in a film with as inane a plot as any they ever made. A couple of CRACKED NUTS find themselves mixed-up in a Latin American revolution. ![]()
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