Joe E. Brown finds a windfall and returns to college twelve years after his freshman year. Entomology professor Lucien Littlefield injects him with a serum that turns him into a superman, and Brown is persuaded by campus cutie June Travis to join the football team.
It's based on the Philip Wylie novel that also inspired Superman. This being a Joe E. Brown movie, its a comedy, even when Brown is wrestling Man Mountain Dean. Although it becomes more standard towards the end, director Edward Sedgwick puts in some lovely gags, like siphoning gasoline into Miss Travis' car, lighting her cigarette with a match, and then trying to blow the match out with his gas-infused breath. Superman never started a fire that way! With Dickie Moore, Lloyd Ingraham, and Eddie Kane.
It's based on the Philip Wylie novel that also inspired Superman. This being a Joe E. Brown movie, its a comedy, even when Brown is wrestling Man Mountain Dean. Although it becomes more standard towards the end, director Edward Sedgwick puts in some lovely gags, like siphoning gasoline into Miss Travis' car, lighting her cigarette with a match, and then trying to blow the match out with his gas-infused breath. Superman never started a fire that way! With Dickie Moore, Lloyd Ingraham, and Eddie Kane.