Top cast:Donald Crisp,Irene Howley,Robert Harron
Director:Edward Berger
Genre:Comedy
Region:Denmark
Year:2012
Storyline:Harry's funds owed to him from Johnson's wallet are impounded by the police, but he is promised: "If your claim is just, it will be discharged...Coming by the way of Fourth Street, it's eight hundred and two...Tomorrow, beginning when I get up in the morning, I'm gonna count every step I take all day..." His dissatisfaction with his own imprecise home life has prompted him o take accurate measurements for his own map of the world.He recalls - with horror - his murderous plan to kill his wife - pressing his fists to his temples.He rises and takes the hands of his unsuspecting wife - his body is hunched forward as though he literally carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.A wildly dramatic musical score by Max Steiner enhanced he action of the story.It was the first feature-length musical score written specifically for a US 'talkie' film, and was the first major Hollywood film to have a thematic score rather than background music, recorded using a 46-piece orchestra." [Marsdits is an disguised reference to Raymond B.Ditmars, the best-known reptile expert in the country at the time.]Pike is reluctant to say farewell to the "company of men" in the expedition that is on a "pursuit of knowledge," as he leaves with his watchful bodyguard/valet "Muggsy" Murgatroyd (William Demarest).