Making Ice Cream in 1934

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Poor Eddie Wilson Jr. (Eddie Cantor) is a slob who can't catch a break -- that is, until he inherits nearly $80 million from his father. Unbeknown to Eddie Jr., however, the fortune comes from his dad's looting of Egyptian archeological treasures. Required to claim the money by traveling to Egypt, Eddie is beset by con artists on the long ship ride there. As if that weren't stressful enough, when he finally arrives he learns the local sheik has sentenced to death anyone claiming the treasure.

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Its elaborate "Ice Cream Fantasy Finale" production number was filmed in three-strip Technicolor, one of the earliest uses of that process in a feature-length film.

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