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Thorne Smith was a U.S. writer, but his humor often strikes me as British. I had no problem with the absurdity of the novel or the far-fetched things that happened, but evidently the film did, as the producer chose to make the entire thing, from the explosion in the lab to the final trick of turning Meg and Hunter Hawk into statues, into a dream sequence.
As for the comparisons to P.G. Wodehouse, I can see some, but Smith is his own man. This was my second time reading this, and I found myuself laughing out loud both times.
As for the DVD of the movie, the only place I could find a copy was on eBay, and from the DVD's quality I strongly suspect it was a bootleg.
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