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The Bank Dick, released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom, is a 1940 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields. Set in Lompoc, California, Fields plays Egbert Sousé, a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and ends up a bank security guard as a result.
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company.
Dec 10, 2000 · Consider "The Bank Dick," which in he plays a man named Egbert Sousé ("accent grave upon the e") -- an unhappily married drunk who accidentally catches a thief, is rewarded with a job at the bank and falls in with a con man.
The Bank Dick, American screwball comedy film, released in 1940, that is widely regarded as one of W.C. Fields ’s best movies. The comedian also wrote the film’s script. Fields played Egbert Sousè, a henpecked drunkard who lands a job as a bank guard after unwittingly capturing a robber.
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The Bank Dick. Edward Cline’s 1940 American comedy starred W.C Fields playing Egbert Sousé. A drunk, Sousé mistakenly stops a bank robbery, in his employment as a bank security...
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Screenplay. Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company.
