The storybook film, Walsh""s lavish masterpiece, featured amazingly difficult stunt work performed by the dashing, flamboyant and gracefully-athletic 40 year-old Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.Whenever he gets to the window, he is told to stand by, and other customers step forward to be helped.Although Ari claimed that humans were skilled and "capable of a real culture" (she held up her embroidered scarf as proof), Thade objected: "Everything in the human culture takes place below the waist," and Colonel Attar accused her of flirting with blasphemy.Robinson (their only teaming together), andLady Killer (1933).Unfortunately, the film also appeared to glamorize criminal activities such as bootlegging (although that was not its intent), and emphasized their high style of life with various floozies (portrayed by Joan Blondell, Mae Clarke, and Jean Harlow).