King Kelly of the USA. Leonard Fields. 1934. 
I remember saying to somebody like five years ago “I’ve never seen a movie from the 30s or 40s I haven’t enjoyed”. But of course that was massive survivorship bias: The movies I had seen from that era were the ones that were the ones that were good enough to be in circulation eighty years later.
So watching the movies on the two public domain DVD box sets has been an eye-opener. There’s no filtering for quality here, but instead just whatever the people making the sets were able to get their hands on — for free.
In conclusion: They sure made lame movies back then, too.
But this isn’t one of those movies.
This is weird.
On a scale of “that’s a weird movie” this scores a “whaaaa…??”
I’m not sure whether they were all eating peyote in their omelettes by mistake or they were just insane.
The director made four movies in the early 30s, and then no more, which is understandable.
But I kinda love this, because it’s just so weird. Well. Bits of it. It’s not a good movie, but it’s something to behold.
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