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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.
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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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Apr 7, 2017 · The bank where Ogg works is robbed, and while one crook gets away and is forced to leaves the money, the other one – a double crosser – is knocked out by the first, and caught by the police later on.
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.
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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, [a] Fields plays Egbert Sousé, a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and ends up a bank security guard as a result.
Egbert Sousé (W.C. Fields) 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...
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Things take a turn for the absurd when he unwittingly captures a bank robber and lands a job as a security guard. Written by Fields under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves and featuring one of his most hilarious performances, The Bank Dick is an undisputed classic of American comedy.
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