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Hitchcoc W. C. Fields dominates this film. For such a basically rotten guy, we still sympathize with him because he is the head of a dysfunctional, mean spirited family. Of course, he's no gem himself, smoking, drinking, carrying on in front of young women. His daughter wants to marry a guy named Og Ogilby (Fields was a master at creating the most ridiculous names for his characters). The boy has little to offer, working in a bank for very little. The story evolves around a bank robbery where Fields (whose name is Souse with the "e" pronounced so he doesn't have the name of a perennial drunk). Fields accidentally apprehends some bank robbers and is rewarded with a job as a band guard. He talks Og into embezzling money and investing it in a gold mine so he can be rich enough to marry his daughter. Things take many turns. The important thing is Fields is on the screen continuously, not having to share time with other stars. Will he land on his feet?

Scarecrow-88 Legendary comedy released by Universal starring the popular vaudeville actor, W.C. Fields, has him starring as an aimless goof with few prospects that happens to be in the right place at the right time, even though the circumstances and dangers for sitting on the alley bench he does could have gotten him killed. A bank robbery ends with one of the thieves getting away *without the loot* while the other (knocked unconscious by the first thief) is left knocked out underneath a bench for which Fields is sitting. He's considered a hero (!) when the police and bank representatives find one of the robbers left out cold while Fields gets up, dusting himself off, taking credit (obviously) for the save of the robbed money. Awarded for his *bravery* with a "bank officer" job for his efforts, Fields "influences" his unfortunate future son-in-law into using bank funds to invest in what soon appears to be an investment scheme (a smooth-talking, enthusiastic scoundrel in the saloon "bamboozles" Fields with his delivery on the potential of the investment) involving a meatsteak mine (!) with a nerdy bank examiner arriving in the California town of Lompoc as a potential threat as his job is to look through the books for any possible "improprieties". So Fields sets out to keep the examiner in a drunken (or sickly) stooper until the soon-to-be son-in-law can get his bonus and pay back the bank what was taken to fund the investment. Included in the shenanigans of the scatter-brained plot include Fields getting involved with a film being made in town, dealing with his disapproving wife, demanding and highly opinionated mother-in-law (who doesn't like when he smokes), and violent acting-out daughter (who often hurls objects at his head!), lending his unwanted supposed expertise to a chauffeur working on his employer's car (when he balks at Fields she corrects him for his impoliteness!), & his having to drive the returning bank robber (able to rob the bank a second time and use Fields, who was to guard the bank so that he wouldn't return, as a shield to protect himself) out of town in a car that starts to fall apart all over dangerous and curvy dirt roads. His vernacular, reactions to sudden people that jolt him when he turns around, his shtick with a "getaway hat" that he accidentally loses off his head but is always nearby, the bits with his cigarette smoking, saloon trips to keep "from getting dry", and how he walks or talks himself into one loony situation after another (sometimes by just being in a certain place, mostly the saloon, as characters appear and emerge) comprise this busy film. The movie doesn't operate under the formula of a moving plot that focuses on a singular story, The Bank Dick is more or less Fields' adventures and encounters that often present potential trouble or hardship. The end allows him to get out of every one of them and go away with a happy ending. My favorite bits involve Fields with the bank examiner. The film uses every bit of the town as Fields always winds up (even if inadvertently) in the middle of the most active of events happening there. I would be remiss to not mention that Shemp Howard has a supporting part as the operator of the Black Pussy Saloon.

The_Film_Cricket W.C. Fields was invaluable as a comedian simply because he doesn't fit. Like Groucho or The Tramp or Mae West or Buster Keaton's stone face, Fields was such a strong personality that any situation or plot was simply an excuse to let him loose and see what kind of damage he could do.The first time that I saw Fields was in a bizarre 1933 short called The Fatal Glass of Beer. That was the one where he goes to the door of his snowbound cabin and proclaims "And it ain't a fit night out for man nor beast." Then is rewarded with a face-full of fake snow. That's also the one where he utters the immortal words "I think I'll go milk an Elk." From there, I set out to see everything of Fields that I could get my hands on. I have noticed an interesting thing: In nearly every film, in nearly every short film, he always plays the same character, the same irascible, mean-spirited little man who hates children and dogs and whose entire existence is the endless pursuit of the drink and the misadventure therein. The experience is something akin to hanging out with the bad kids at school, you can see them getting away with doing bad stuff but it is a fun journey even if you only sit on the sidelines.Of his features, The Bank Dick is my favorite. He wrote the screenplay himself but the credit went under his pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves (say that name out loud slowly). Like most of the great comedians of the time, he was given control over his own project but still had to battle the Hays office over content. For instance, the Black Pussy Cat Cafe was written in the original script as The Black Pussy Cafe and Snack Bar. Joe Breen and the Hays office changed the name even though somehow the film's title remained.He plays henpecked Egbert Sousé, his usual lecherous drunk who accidentally foils a bank robbery and is offered a job as the bank's guard. A light bulb goes off in his brain to employ his good-for-nothing future son-in-law in an embezzlement scheme to siphon bank funds into a fly-by-night mining enterprise. From there, it is just one damn thing after another. The movie has no real structure and in any other comedy that would be a problem but for Fields it's just a series of set ups and comic pay-offs that have no real connection. Like The Marx Brothers, the plot is more or less an afterthought. The problem in describing Fields is that he can't really be described in words, he's an experience, not an explanation.The persona that Fields created has, today, fallen out of favor. After a brief revival in the 70s, the generation that followed has yet to discover him and I don't think they ever will. Today, in these politically correct times, Fields drunk act doesn't fit. We take alcoholism seriously and a man whose happy pursuit of the sauce frames his very existence doesn't seem in step with the times. But for me, I am bound to see comedy for what it is. If is makes me laugh, it's not my business whether it's politically correct or not. That's why Hollywood had such a problem with Fields, he didn't fit the good-natured mold they wanted to fashion for him.

Frances Farmer I had no particularly high expectations for "The Bank Dick" but since it is reputed to be one of W.C. Fields' best movies I thought I'd take a flier on it. Not the worst movie I've ever seen but far from the best. The real problem is the acting is very mediocre. All the types are there... the shrewish wife, the nasty mother in law, the super-bratty offspring, con men, drunkards, etc. but they just don't pull their weight. Most of the lines aren't all that funny to begin with but they could succeed much better with superior delivery.As I think about it, comedies don't seem to age nearly as well on the whole as dramas. That must have to do partly with comedies being much more culturally/contextually dependent for their success with audiences. Perhaps whatever W.C. was trying to poke fun at or deflate is so irrelevant in 2011 that this dated movie just isn't worth the bother any longer.