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The Bank Dick is a 1940 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a drunk who becomes a bank detective. The film was written by Fields under a pseudonym and directed by Edward F. Cline.
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
Bank Dick, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) New Old Lompoc House Now on the job, Sousè (W.C. Fields, also screenwriter) observes son-in-law-to-be "Og" (Grady Sutton) executing the embezzlement scheme he proposed, until the bank examiner (Franklin Pangborn) appears, in. Now a town hero for having foiled a robbery, inebriate Egbert Sousè ...
- Edward Cline, Ralph Ceder, Fred Frank
- W. C. Fields
Directed by Edward F. Cline. With W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio.The Bank Dick Blu-ray : https://amzn.to/3dHYm5uThe Bank Dick DVD ...
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. At one point he wanders into his favorite bar, the Black Pussy Cat (bartender: Shemp Howard), and meets a movie ...
A bank guard and a charlatan get involved in a mining scheme and a bank robbery. The Bank Dick is a classic slapstick comedy starring W.C. Fields, who also wrote the screenplay.
A classic of American comedy, The Bank Dick (1940) stars W.C. Fields as an unemployed drunk who becomes a security guard by accident. The film is written by Fields under a pseudonym and features his trademark wit and slapstick humor.
