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William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 [1] – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler and writer. [2]Fields's career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler.
The Bank Dick, released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom, is a 1940 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields.Set in Lompoc, California, [a] Fields plays Egbert Sousé, a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and ends up a bank security guard as a result.
The story begins in 1924 in New York City, where W. C. Fields is a Ziegfeld Follies headliner, and ends with his 1946 death in California at age 66. In between, it dramatizes his life and career with emphasis on the latter part of both, when the "Me" of the title, Carlotta Monti, played a prominent role, with a number of fictionalized events added for dramatic impact.
The triumph of Fields' character over his circumstances, and the happy ending thanks to a windfall profit, would be repeated later in 1934 in It's a Gift. The film received only a cursory review in William K. Everson's 1967 book The Art of W.C. Fields as it was unavailable because of ownership issues.
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Fields' "Great McGonigle" character—a riff on the Great Ziegfeld—is rather similar to the carnival operator types he would later play in 1936's Poppy and 1939's You Can't Cheat an Honest Man. The play depicted in the film, is the American temperance play The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved , first performed in 1844. [ 1 ]
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