The Bank Dick Movie Review
The Bank Dick Review
"The Bank Dick" Overview
Rating: NR
1940
Cast and Crew
Director : Edward F. ClineProducer : Jack J. Gross
Screenwiter : W.C. Fields
Starring : W.C. Fields,Cora Witherspoon,Una Merkel,Evelyn Del Rio,Jessie Ralph,Franklin Pangborn,Shemp Howard,Dick Purcell,Grady Sutton
W.C. Fields, writing as "Mahatma Kane Jeeves" (say it aloud) had full creative control over The Bank Dick, widely regarded as his finest film. As Egbert Souse (pronounced Soo-SAY, of course), Fields plays his typically hapless schlub who foils a bank robbery (through no fault of his own) and ends up being given a job there as a reward. Wacky hijinks ensue, with some of the best one-liners in Fields' career herein. Excellent.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
