This wacky screwball comedy has so much going on that you might have to watch it over again to make sure that you saw right. If Hellzappoppin' turned Broadway with all of its hysterical gags, this farce had Hollywood on its ears with laughter. Robert Young and Frank Morgan are mistaken for multi-millionaire and hobo respectively when they each check in to an inn in the Alps and practically cause an avalanche.
Young encounters Morgan's daughter, Florence Rice, with Edna May Oliver garnering most of the laughs in her own uninhibited manner, even going down an Alp mountainside on skies and being accused of immoral behavior as age tries to track down long time employer Morgan. Mary Astor is a delight as an obvious gold digger, with smaller roles played by Reginald Owen, Felix Bressart and Herman Bing, the later in his funniest role as the hotel clerk whose attempts at keeping order keeps exploding in his face.
The skiing and skating sequences appear to be black and white animation, but the lavish sets and costumes are only matched by the witty script. This isn't among the classic screwball comedies of the golden age, but as typical fluff, it is indeed fluff with plenty of innuendo and hysterically funny moments. Even an incident involving steam escaping results in plenty of giggles. Young and Rice are a charming couple, but it is the supporting characters, particularly Oliver, who end up as the scene stealers.
Young encounters Morgan's daughter, Florence Rice, with Edna May Oliver garnering most of the laughs in her own uninhibited manner, even going down an Alp mountainside on skies and being accused of immoral behavior as age tries to track down long time employer Morgan. Mary Astor is a delight as an obvious gold digger, with smaller roles played by Reginald Owen, Felix Bressart and Herman Bing, the later in his funniest role as the hotel clerk whose attempts at keeping order keeps exploding in his face.
The skiing and skating sequences appear to be black and white animation, but the lavish sets and costumes are only matched by the witty script. This isn't among the classic screwball comedies of the golden age, but as typical fluff, it is indeed fluff with plenty of innuendo and hysterically funny moments. Even an incident involving steam escaping results in plenty of giggles. Young and Rice are a charming couple, but it is the supporting characters, particularly Oliver, who end up as the scene stealers.