FOOLS' PARADE is an unusual and only mildly successful comedy with surreal touches. These touches work while the main plot is only average, episodic at best and middling at worst. The tale is about some no-good criminals leaving prison and deciding to use a cheque to set up business, except various other corrupt officials and hoodlums also want to nab the loot. The thing that makes it all worthwhile is the cast; the leads are played by George Kennedy, a youthful Kurt Russell, and James Stewart sporting one heck of a false eye. There are other dependables, like Strother Martin, playing in support. They do their best throughout and are always worth a watch, but even they can't lift this above the level of distinctly average.
Review of Fools' Parade
