The Bank Dick (1940)

Awards
- 1 win total

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W.C. Fields

Egbert Sousé

Cora Witherspoon

Agatha Sousé

Una Merkel

Myrtle Sousé

Evelyn Del Rio

Elsie Mae Adele Brunch Sousé

Jessie Ralph

Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch

Franklin Pangborn

J. Pinkerton Snoopington

Shemp Howard

Joe Guelpe

Dick Purcell

Mackley Q. Greene
(as Richard Purcell)

Grady Sutton

Og Oggilby

Russell Hicks

J. Frothingham Waterbury

Pierre Watkin

Mr. Skinner

Al Hill

Filthy McNasty - aka Rupulsive Rogan

George Moran

Cozy Cochran - aka Loudmouth Nasty

Bill Wolfe

Otis

Jack Norton

A. Pismo Clam

Pat West

Assistant Director

Reed Hadley

Francois

Heather Wilde

Miss Plupp

Director
- Edward F. Cline
Writers
- W.C. Fields
- Richard Carroll
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Trivia
"Mahatma Kane Jeeves" (the pseudonym used by W.C. Fields as screenwriter) is a play on words from stage plays of the era. "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!" And in fact, at the end of the film his butler does hand him his hat and his cane.

Goofs
When W.C. Fields enters the hotel room of J. Pinkerton Snoopington, a hand can be seen on the doorknob on the other side pulling the door shut.

Quotes
Egbert Sousé: [at the bar of the Black Pussy Cat cafe] Was I in here last night and did I spend a twenty dollar bill?
Joe Guelpe: Yeah.
Egbert Sousé: Oh boy, what a load that is off my mind! I thought I'd lost it.

Connections
Featured in Frances Farmer Presents: Bank Dick (1958)

Soundtracks
Home Sweet Home
(1823) (uncredited)
Music by H.R. Bishop
Background music near the beginning of the movie and at the end

A classic comedy from the irreverent W. C. Fields who unapologetically dismantles as many of the Production Code's rules as he can as he frequents the Black Pussy, a bar managed by Shemp Howard, one-third of the Three Stooges. The plot is secondary to the gags, which come thick and fast; they don't always hit, but when they do they're smack bang in the centre of the bullseye.