English title: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
An American executive travels to the Soviet Union. He takes a bodyguard dressed in full cowboy outfit with him. From U.S. magazines he had acquired the notion that the bolsheviks were violent and dangerous. In the Soviet Union he falls prey to a gang of hoodlums who stage a false kidnapping in order to extort money from him.
Pretty awful propagandistic comedy which has absolutely no political insight and fails miserably even as mere slapstick. The main actress looks exactly like (or is made here to look exactly like, perhaps) Olive Oyl, the character who appeared in 1919 in the comic strip Thimble Theatre.
Rating: 20
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