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The film was written by Fields, using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves (derived from the Broadway drawing-room comedy cliché "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!"), [3] and directed by Edward F. Cline. The film also stars Una Merkel, Richard Purcell, Shemp Howard, Franklin Pangborn, Grady Sutton, Jessie Ralph and Cora Witherspoon.
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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. 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. However, bank auditor J. Pinkerton Snoopington (Franklin Pangborn) soon arrives, and Sousè becomes embroiled in a madcap scheme to prevent Snoopington from uncovering the missing money.
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•Studio: Universal Pictures
•Director: Edward F. Cline
•Writer: Mahatma Kane Jeeves (W.C. Fields)
•Music: Charles Previn
•W.C. Fields (Egbert Sousè)
•Cora Witherspoon (Agatha Sousè)
•Una Merkel (Myrtle Sousè)
•Franklin Pangborn (J. Pinkerton Snoopington)
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Fields wrote the screenplay (using an alias) and stars in this zany comedy about a man who accidentally trips a bank robber and winds up as a guard. Fields' last major role is a classic, a worthy end to his great career.
The American screwball comedy film The Bank Dick (1940) 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.
Harold Lloyd often played the browbeaten underdog who saved the day through pluck and determi-nation. Harry Langdon was the little man who was frightened by everything. Laurel and Hardy were two innocents clinging to each other in a hostile world. Conversely, W. C. Fields was never traditionally endearing.
The Bank Dick, written by Fields under the nom de plume Mahatma Kane Jeeves, contains many of the same themes found in his short films: the hectoring family, small-town puritanism, irritating children, the love of drink and smoke.
Determined to make the film he wanted to make, Fields (who wrote the script and ad-libbed much of his part) had to argue with the director, the studio and the Hollywood censors on many gags and lines.
