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3 sie 2024 · The Bank Dick. W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel. 145 votes. Featuring Fields as a comically inept bank security guard, this film stands out as a prime example of his signature blend of verbal and physical comedy.
7 kwi 2017 · The Bank Dick is squarely in the latter camp. 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.
In this comedy-satire on conformity, Dick Van Dyke plays a Manhattan bank teller who grows a beard when he develops a rash from a bee sting. He is promptly fired from his job while his ... See full summary »
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.
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.
7.1 (5.8K) Rate. A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife. Director Norman Z. McLeod Stars W.C. Fields Kathleen Howard Jean Rouverol. 2. The Bank Dick. 1940 1h 12m Approved. 7.1 (7.9K) Rate.
10 gru 2000 · “The Bank Dick” (1940) is probably Fields’ best film, but his career resides not so much in individual films as in scenes and moments scattered here and there between his first short subject, in 1915, and his last films in the mid-1940s.
