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The Bank Dick (1998)

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4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004TX1R
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,360 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
  • For more information about "The Bank Dick" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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High on the list of W.C. Fields's achievements is this 74-minute feature from 1940, rich in his brilliantly rambling inspiration. Fields plays Egbert Sousé (pronounced Soo 'zay, of course), who manages to foil a bank robbery, tilt a glass in the Black Pussy Cafe, and marry his daughter to Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton) before the closing credits. Maintaining his usual and deliberate half-step behind the rest of the world, Fields's characteristic persona gets a truly worthy movie here that always seems, wonderfully, to be on the verge of racing ahead of him. --Tom Keogh

Product Description
W.C. Fields stars as an unemployed, henpecked drunk who spends most of his time at the Black Pussy Cat café. Things take a turn for the absurd when he unwittingly captures a bank robber and lands a job as a security guard. Written by Fields under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves and featuring one of his most hilarious performances, The Bank Dick is an undisputed classic of American comedy. Criterion is proud to present Fields' last major film in a new digital transfer, with English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars FIELDS OF NIGHTMARES, September 16, 2000
The world of W.C. FIELDS is a very peculiar one ; it is filled with clouds of smoke and empty bottles, with terrible children deserving to be lashed to blood and with nightmarish wives and mother-in-laws. Always ready to help his fellow companions, our poor hero must also cope with heartless bankers and dishonest crooks (yes, they exist ! ).

If you are a movie lover, this particular world deserves a royal place on your library's shelves, W.C. FIELDS playing, in my opinion, in the same league than Buster Keaton, Charles S. Chaplin, the Marx Brothers or Jerry Lewis. The League of the Champions of the Absurdness.

Nevertheless, the price of this Criterion release, without bonus features, except for english subtitles, could discourage the average amateur. THE BANK DICK lasts only 74 minutes but offers two or three scenes worthy to appear in an anthology of the best comic scenes ever filmed. I specially loved the car chase, involving three cars, a motorcycle and a W.C. FIELDS destructing his car while driving at 70 miles per hour. But dialogs are also extremely funny, completing the pleasure that you are certainly going to have with one of the Masters of comic movies.

A DVD dedicated to mother-in-laws.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars NO synch problems on Criterion DVD, September 9, 2000
By A Customer
First of all, this is one of the funniest movies ever made. There is not one scene that isn't hillarious. As for one reviewer's comment that the sound and picture are out of synch, this is almost certainly a problem with the player's DSP chip (see Sound & Vision magazine's article on this; Sony knows all about it).

The Bank Dick stands tall, even amongst Fields' other brilliant movies, You're Telling Me and the sensational Its A Gift. Our hero, Egbert Souse (pronounced "Sue-Say") has a Married With Children existence--until he accidentally foils a bank robbery.

The Bank Dick has my all time favorite Fields line: J. Frothingham Waterbury, a stock swindler, says "I want to show you I'm honest in the worst way!".

Fields also paints a less than flattering picture of miserly bankers, the rich, and people who only treat you well when you have money. What makes this so funny, of course, is, its mostly true!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential W.C. Fields DVD, April 18, 2003
By A Customer
The Bank Dick is pure Fields and the best of his feature films (with My Little Chickadee a close second). The comedy is timeless; most of the jokes, although written 60 years ago , are relevant today. Supporting cast is brilliant. A must have for all classic comedy fans.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beer running over your Grandmother's paisley shawl
Field's diehard fans debate whether this film or It's A Gift was his greatest. I prefer It's A Gift, but I still love this film very much. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Richard M. Rollo Jr.

5.0 out of 5 stars He was one of a kind, and this is one of his best. Lots of laughs
If you enjoy comedy films from this era, you need to see this one. Fields is at his best, screwing things up and trying to get them un-screwed up. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Bookenator

5.0 out of 5 stars The Bank Dick
Though his work is not to every taste, I view Fields as a comic genius right alongside Chaplin and The Marx Brothers. Read more
Published on June 25, 2007 by John Farr

5.0 out of 5 stars Is that thing loaded???
Sure, its one of The Great Man's best movies, but wher are the Paramount classics, Man On The Flying Trapeze and The Old Fashioned Way?? Read more
Published on December 25, 2006 by Godfrey Daniels

4.0 out of 5 stars "I offer you a heart handclasp!"
The Bank Dick is the story of a drunken man who finds himself appointed to be the security guard of the bank after a robbery falsely paints him as a hero. Read more
Published on November 11, 2005 by Samantha Kelley

4.0 out of 5 stars Buy quickly! Limited availablility!
This review is to inform any prospective buyers out there that have a remote interest in this film, to buy 'The Bank Dick' as soon as possible. Read more
Published on April 23, 2005 by Anthony

1.0 out of 5 stars What Did I Miss
I am wondering about myself. Everyone here loves this movie, but I found it incredibly tedious and unfunny (is that a word? Read more
Published on April 19, 2005 by Reader from Connecticut

3.0 out of 5 stars a fine example of slapstick comedy
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.

W.C. Fields stars as Egbert Sousè (Pronounced as "Soosay" but mispronounced as "souse"... Read more

Published on May 29, 2004 by Ted M.

5.0 out of 5 stars W.C. Fields is too funny...
this movie may cause you to lose faith in the possibilities of comedy in the new millenium. W.C. Fields was the best curmudgeon ever and this is one of his greatest films. Read more
Published on December 9, 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Fields you can get
I've always been a big fan of W.C. Fields and I've always been disappointed in the quality (and quantity) of his work that is available. Read more
Published on June 25, 2002 by Myke Predko

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