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The Bank Dick

Cast

W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio View All

Crew

Edward F. Cline (Director), W.C. Fields (Screenplay) View All

Release: Nov. 29th, 1940

Runtime: 1 hour, 12 minutes

Egbert Sous� becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

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Takoma11
A gag where Egbert is alarmed by the appearance of a Black man behind him in the bank is already a bit meh, but then the Black character is a very caricatured bug-eyed, ungrammatical bit and it just feels incredibly dated and lazily racist.

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