Preceded by a classic of Hollywood anarchism (feature-length). "Cinema...-to the extent that, to please, it is condemned to extreme solutions-must encounter humor almost directly"--André Breton "Why are all the women called Angela and the men George?" "Why not?" --Million Dollar Legs With its abundance of visual and verbal surprises, Million Dollar Legs is a classic of sublime idiocy unique to early-thirties comedy. W. C. Fields, in his first starring role in the talkies, is president of the mythical country of Klopstokia, a position he holds by virtue of being the country's top Indian wrestler. The decision is made to enter Klopstokia in the Los Angeles Olympics in order to fill its empty coffers; hence the eponymous limbs, which belong to majordomo Andy Clyde who, with the help of Sennett-style photographic tricks, runs very, very fast. That is the story, however no one seems very concerned to stick to it. Silent sight gags pile upon verbal shenanigans, with Fields translating some of his vaudeville routines unadulterated, and possibly unsolicited, to the screen. Contemporary critics raised their brows from middle to high at the primitive humor of this "just plain silly" picture, but the Surrealist André Breton placed it with Animal Crackers on a line of black humor leading from Sennett and Chaplin to Buñuel's Un chien andalou and L'Age d'or. Ado Kyrou pronounced W. C. Fields "surrealist in everything."