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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.
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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.
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- Comedy
- Edward F. Cline
- 1940-11-29
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.
The Bank Dick - Full Cast & Crew. Story about Egbert Souse, the town drunk who unwittingly foils a bank robbery and is given the job of guard as a reward. He gets himself and his future...
- Edward F. Cline, Eddie Cline
Director. W.C. Fields. 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.
Apr 7, 2017 · Fields is Egbert Sousè – “accent grave over the e”, rather than plain old Souse (drunkard). Somehow, without gainful employment, Egbert is surviving a semi-miserable family life somewhere in small-town 1940’s America. We hear a plaintive version of “no place like home” playing over his first scene in the Sousè residence.
