Harem Scarem

1932
20m

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When a fortune teller tells Henry about a previous life, his imagination runs wild. Robin Hood rescues the platinum-blonde princess in ancient Baghdad--with Henry playing the part of Robin, ... Read allWhen a fortune teller tells Henry about a previous life, his imagination runs wild. Robin Hood rescues the platinum-blonde princess in ancient Baghdad--with Henry playing the part of Robin, of course.When a fortune teller tells Henry about a previous life, his imagination runs wild. Robin Hood rescues the platinum-blonde princess in ancient Baghdad--with Henry playing the part of Robin, of course.

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5.3/10

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Al St. John

Henry

Robert Strange

Winters

Aileen Cook

Peggy

Harriet Nelson

Gwen
(as Harriet Hilliard)

Wilfred Lytell

Gardner

Director
- Albert Ray
Writer
- Andrew Bennison
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6boblipton

Down To His Last Elephant

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.