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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.
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The Bank Dick: Directed by Edward F. Cline. With W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio. Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.
Egbert Sousé, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fiancée, is teller.
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.
Fields played Egbert Sousè, a henpecked drunkard who lands a job as a bank guard after unwittingly capturing a robber. After hearing a con man’s sales pitch, he convinces his future son-in-law (played by Grady Sutton), who is also a bank employee, to embezzle money in order to invest in the scheme.
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.
