name | The Bank Dick | image WC Fields.gif | caption Theatrical release poster | director Edward F. Cline | producer | writer Mahatma Kane Jeeves(W. C. Fields) | starring W. C. Fields | music Charles Previn | cinematography Milton R. Krasner | editing Arthur Hilton | distributor Universal Pictures | released | runtime 72 minutes | language English | budget | country }} |
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The film was written by Fields, using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves (derived from the Broadway drawing-room comedy cliche, "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!"), and directed by Edward F. Cline. Shemp Howard, one of the Three Stooges, plays a bartender.
In 1992, The Bank Dick was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In talking Og into embezzling from the bank and encountering resistance, Egbert says: "Don't be a luddy duddy, Don't be a moon calf. Don't be a jabbernowl. You're not those, are you?" (Fields, whose ear for the preposterous-sounding phrase, word or name was unparalleled, claimed to have found the words in a dictionary.)
The film contains some elements of Fields' "everyman" films from the early 1930s, in which he plays the verbally-abused spouse who attains financial security and finally the respect of his nagging family. In this film, he parodies that character to some degree, as much of the criticism is deserved. Early in the film, as the family is bad-mouthing Egbert (for example, taking money from the younger daughter's piggybank and leaving IOU's), a humorously-orchestrated version of "No Place Like Home" plays in the underscore. At the end, with the family now wealthy and playing the parts of exaggerated polite-society characters, "No Place Like Home"" plays again, in a more sincere-sounding melody.
The fake-French pronunciation of his name, established in the film's very first scene, echoes the running joke in It's a Gift, in which Fields and his wife were constantly telling people to pronounce the family name, Bisonette, as "bi-son-AY".
On his way out the door for the last time in the picture, the butler hands Egbert his hat and cane (living up to Fields' writing pseudonym), and Egbert executes two of his time-honored "juggling" bits: bouncing the cane on the floor and catching it on the rebound; then putting his top hat on and catching it on the tip of the cane instead. As he strolls down the sidewalk, he hears someone whistling "Listen to the Mocking Bird." It turns out to be Joe the bartender (Shemp), and Egbert changes direction and walks quickly toward his pal as the song finishes in the underscore (coincidentally, the song was a recurring Three Stooges theme song at one time).
Category:1940 films Category:American films Category:American criminal comedy films Category:Black-and-white films Category:English-language films Category:Films directed by Edward F. Cline Category:United States National Film Registry films Category:Universal Pictures films
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