Funny movie, they were both great in it.
They were best friends in real life. In the 1930s one winter evening in manhattan they were walking along on the sidewalk while debating politics. The argument became so heated that they came to blows. They were rolling around on the snowy sidewalk trying to beat each others brains in when they came to the realization how ridiculous the both of them were acting. They treasured their friendship way more than politics and politicians, so they made a vow to never discuss politics in each others presence ever again in order to preserve their friendship.
Haven’t watched this yet, but it reminded me of seeing Jimmy Stewart (a devout Republican in the 1950’s and 1960’s) come to Scranton, PA, for an event promoting William Scranton for Governor of PA versus some corrupt PA democrat (I think this was 1962). There’s this huge arena with maybe 15,000 in attendance when Jimmy Stewart begins his remarks: “You know, some people around here told me ‘you could take all the Republicans in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and fit them all into a phone booth... [looks around the arena] some phone booth!”