“The Bank Dick” (Movie Review-12/13/40)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 12/13/40 | Bosley Crowther, Douglas W. Churchill

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

No clips or trailers today.

[SharpRightTurn]

I love W. C. Fields and this is one of my favorite movies.

Thanks.

[Vaquero]

Was I in here last night and did I spend a twenty dollar bill? What a load that is off my mind! I thought I'd lost it!

Mahatma Kane Jeeves (google it)

[LRS]

Sousè (accent over the “E”)...

[abb]

WHAT?!?!?! A NY Times news story on Howard Hughes and "The Outlaw" and no pics?!?!

[Vaquero]

Shemp Howard as the Bartender of the 'Black Pussy' cafe

[Vaquero]

Egbert Sousé: Don't be a luddy-duddy! Don't be a mooncalf! Don't be a jabbernowl! You're not those, are you? ....... Ten cents a share. Telephone sold for five cents a share. How would you like something better for ten cents a share? If five gets ya ten, ten'll get ya twenty. A beautiful home in the country, upstairs and down. Beer flowing through the estate over your grandmother's paisley shawl.

Og Oggilby: Beer?

Egbert Sousé: Beer! Fishing in the stream that runs under the aboreal dell. A man comes up from the bar, dumps $3,500 in your lap for every nickel invested. Says to you, "Sign here on the dotted line." And then disappears in the waving fields of alfalfa.

[NavyCanDo]

The Bank Dick was a great one, but I liked the movie from a year earlier the best, “You Can't Cheat an Honest Man” where he plays Larson E. Whipsnade who runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. Paring Fields up with Charlie McCarthy provided hilarious moments, even by today's standards of comedy. It's one of my 9-year old son's favorite and most watched movies.

[miss marmelstein]

Great movie. My favorite line is Fields to Pangborn the Bank Examiner who has been given a “Michael Finn” and is desperately sick: “Whatever you do, don’t think about veal cutlets in tomato sauce!”

[4yearlurker]

I believe this is the movie were Fields does his routine at the pool table in the bar while telling the story of why they call him “Honest John.” Still laugh out loud funny!!

[Lancey Howard]

‘The Bank Dick’ will always hold a special place in my heart. The night before my wedding day in 1982 one of my brothers and I stayed up and watched that WC Fields movie on late night TV.