A broken and penniless newspaperman participates in an experiment in which two crazy millionaires are offering a prize of $10,000 to anyone who can spend $1,000 a minute, every minute, for 12 hours straight.
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Andre Sennwald wrote: "This fanciful situation is a setup for cinema farce and '$1,000 a Minute' races busily along, picking up its laughs on the run. Stemming from a short story, the enterprise suffers the natural hazard of sustaining the idea over a distance, and the adapters are not overly successful in their efforts to pad it to the requirements of a full-length motion picture. The film has a tendency to work down instead of up to a climax, and toward the end it thins out pretty rapidly. But it makes for good, unpretentious fun, and it contains more honest laughter than you will find in many more elaborate screen entertainments."[4]
^Sennwald, Andre (December 21, 1935). "How to Spend $1,000 a Minute, as Told in the New Motion Picture Farce at the Roxy Theatre". The New York Times. p. 11.
