La vita notturna degli dei

Crackpot inventor Alan Mowbray devises a process to turn flesh into marble and marble into flesh. After turning the disapproving portion of his family into statues, he gets plastered -- figuratively -- and meets a leprechaum and his 900-year-old daughter, Florinne McKinney. They sneak into a museum and turn statues of Olympian deities into flesh-and-blood, and then go on a boisterous rampage about town.

It's based on Thorne Smith's comic fantasy. Smith and James Branch Cabell were popular fantasy novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, carrying on the tradition of Offenbach's operettas, in which various deities and other figures form myths carry on in ways that modern people with too much wealth and too little sense do. Lowell Sherman directs a crazy comedy about the subject, but remains too well mannered and rational, insistent on having a traditional plot structure about the movie. Still, it's fun while it last. With Peggy Shannon, Richard Carle, Phillips Smalley, Wesley Barry, William 'Stage, and various other well known players as the gods.