The Bank Dick

Along with IT'S A GIFT, one of the definitive W.C. Fields films. THE BANK DICK is, as with all the best of Fields, appropriately thin on plot and heavy with hilarious set-pieces which allow "The Great Man" his full comic scope. The cynical, eccentric, bottle-hitting comedian plays an unemployed, henpecked (as usual) family man none-too-eagerly seeking work who accidentally captures a bank robber and is rewarded with a job as guard inside the bank. When not busy bothering customers (as when he apprehends a patron's son brandishing a toy gun), he runs between his deliciously horrid family and The Black Pussy Cat Cafe, where the proprietor (a Three Stooges-less Howard...