• It’s the second of five archiveable “early funny films” from Woody
  • It’s really his take on the Marx brothers duck soup and he uses a stand-in (contemporary for the time) Cuba and Castro instead of freedonia
  • Odessa steps sequence taken from battleship potemkin
  • Great string of vignettes- fake commercials (exercise machine)- clearly an influence on Saturday Night Live which would start a few years later
  • The mugging sequence with a very young stallone on the subway is pure Chaplin- a great silent sequence complete with piano accompaniment
  • It’s a wild film and satire- there’s the random parallel parking on the cross sequence
  • It’s hilarious- but it really has to stretch to get to the running time of 83 minutes and a feature length
  • Recommend but not in the top 10 of 1971