Milquetoast clerk Al St. John runs the office, but has an enormous inferiority complex. So he goes to a fake fortune teller who informs him that in a previous life he was Robin Hood in Baghdad a thousand years ago. He imagines what it was like.
Al gets to show off some of the acrobatics that slapstick depended on, and the chaotic images and situations are part of the crazy comedy that was popular in the era, particularly the Marx Brothers. But the fortune teller's establishment is straight out of Amos & Andy, and can be wearisome for the modern audience. Still, it's good to see St. John bounce off the walls like Lupino Lane, and Harriet Nelson in her second screen role, back when she was Harriet Hilliard.
Al gets to show off some of the acrobatics that slapstick depended on, and the chaotic images and situations are part of the crazy comedy that was popular in the era, particularly the Marx Brothers. But the fortune teller's establishment is straight out of Amos & Andy, and can be wearisome for the modern audience. Still, it's good to see St. John bounce off the walls like Lupino Lane, and Harriet Nelson in her second screen role, back when she was Harriet Hilliard.
