Reviews
The movie has many favorable reviews of it. Respected film critic Leslie Halliwell said "probably the best Fields vehicle there is" and W.C. Fields Biographer Robert Lewis Taylor called it "One of the great classics of American comedy". Otis Ferguson, however, wasn't so keen on it. He said "When the man (W.C. Fields) is funny he is terrific... but the story is makeshift, the other characters are stock types, the only pace discernible is the distance between drinks or the rhythm of the fleeting seconds it takes Fields to size up trouble and duck the hell out."
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