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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.
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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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.
The Bank Dick is comedy gold and it showcases one of the best comedic performances by an actor. The Bank Dick, which Fields wrote under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves, takes place in Lompoc, California.
Apr 7, 2017 · Ever one for self-belief and bluster, Sousè offers his services, clearly with no experience other than personal delusion. Turning up on the set, Sousè makes a fool out of himself and everyone else, and soon receives a visit from his outraged family.
Nov 17, 2021 · At first glance, The Bank Dick is no different from many other Fields films—he plays a down on his luck family man with a nagging wife who runs into a series of mishaps, many of which don’t necessarily advance a linear plot.
