The Barber Shop

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An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.

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W.C. Fields

Cornelius O'Hare

Elise Cavanna

Mrs. O'Hare

Harry Watson

Ronald O'Hare

Dagmar Oakland

Hortense

John Sinclair

Mr. Flugg
(as John St. Clair)

Cyril Ring

Escaped Bank Robber

Frank Alexander

Steam Room Victim - Before
(uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Steam Room Victim - After
(uncredited)

Joe Bordeaux

Passerby
(uncredited)

Harry Bowen

Cop
(uncredited)

Joe Calder

Passerby
(uncredited)

Julia Griffith

Mrs. Scroggins - Passerby
(uncredited)

Fay Holderness

Little Girl's Mother
(uncredited)

George Humbert

Jose
(uncredited)

William McCall

Man with Horse
(uncredited)

Dick Rush

Cop
(uncredited)

Gloria Velarde

Gloria - Little Girl in Barber's Chair
(uncredited)

Frank Yaconelli

Italian Man Selling Bass Fiddle
(uncredited)

Director
- Arthur Ripley
Writer
- W.C. Fields
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Trivia
This film is included on "W.C. Fields - Six Short Films", which is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #79.

Quotes
Cornelius O'Hare: I'm the worst barber in town, my wife can tell you that.

Connections
Edited into W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films (2000)

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Very Enjoyable, With Fields in Fine Form

With the great W.C. Fields in fine form, and a setup that provides him with a lot of good material, "The Barber Shop" is a very enjoyable short comedy. It is filled with the kinds of details and subtle gags that make Fields's comedies worth watching attentively.

"The Barber Shop" closely resembles the Fields feature "The Pharmacist", with very similar settings and stories. Both are very good, and in both of them Elise Cavanna is funny as the domineering wife of Fields's character. Both have some gags that are deliberately absurd, and others that are less obvious. Both feature amusing exchanges between Fields and numerous customers.

When Fields was at his best, he could really get across the wackiness of so much of what happens in daily life, and that's one of the things that works quite well here.