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Name: The Bank Dick
Released: 1940-11-29
Cast: W.C. Fields, Una Merkel, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard, Jessie Ralph

The Bank Dick

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1h 11m
1940

96%

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Egbert Sousé, a hard‑drinking slacker with a chaotic home life, unwittingly foils a bank robbery and becomes a security guard. Drawn into swindler J. Frothingham Waterbury's shady stock scheme, Sousé convinces timid teller Og Oggilby-his future son‑in‑law-to invest with "borrowed" bank funds. Their plan teeters into a full-blown fiasco when bank auditor J. Pinkerton Snoopington arrives unexpectedly.

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

96%

Reviews

The New Republic

Otis Ferguson

The audience is asleep because this was never made as a picture. It is stiff and static and holds no interest outside of W. C Fields -- you don’t care what happens to anybody else, you don’t care what the outcome; you forget immediately if there was any.

There's a hilarious sense of nonchalance about the whole thing, and if Fields and Cline are just throwing everything they've got at this thing and seeing what works as the film is unfolding.

Arguably stands as Fields' finest achievement.

It's a prominently jumbled picture, switching from one gimmick to the next in a haphazard manner.

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