Business and Pleasure

This movie was awful besides being rife with cultural mistakes it hinged upon the misadventures of a dumb Oklahoman who couldn't have been more country. He called his wife "mama" in all settings which was a sure sign of a lack of sophistication and ignorance, yet he was a successful businessman. The rest of the movie made you wonder how he could be successful at anything, especially owning his own razor company. The plot and people were so idiotic it's not worth going into.

I can sum up the entire picture with one scene:

The main character, Earl Tinker (Will Rogers), dressed up like a fortune telling Hindu holy man, put on his best (by which I mean worst) Indian accent, and proceeded to dole out fortunes via a crystal ball. Why was a Hindu priest in Damascus, Syria? I don't know. Why couldn't the two who went to him recognize that he was a horrible fraud (especially Madame Momora (Jetta Goudal) who was a student of the swami)? Again, I don't know. All I know is that everything was wrong about this movie and this dated tripe couldn't pass the smell test in any era.

Buried in this dump was Boris Karloff as Sheik Ali Ben Joseph which makes no sense. Boris as Ali simply because he's not American and has an accent is as believable as a dog playing a cat. But that was par for the course for this movie.

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