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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.
Obsada. W.C. Fields - Egbert Sousé. Cora Witherspoon - Agatha Sousé. Una Merkel - Myrtle Sousé. Evelyn Del Rio - Elsie Mae Adele Brunch Sousé. Jessie Ralph - Pani Hermisillo Brunch. Grady Sutton - Og Oggilby. Franklin Pangborn - J. Pinkerton Snoopington. Shemp Howard - Joe Guelpe. Dick Purcell - Mackley Q. Greene.
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.
Overview. 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, American screwball comedy film, released in 1940, that is widely regarded as one of W.C. Fields’s best movies. The comedian also wrote the film’s script. Fields played Egbert Sousè, a henpecked drunkard who lands a job as a bank guard after unwittingly capturing a robber.
