Also Known As: The Great Man
Company: Universal Pictures
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Plot: Egbert Souse, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fiancée, is teller. Souse persuades Og to embezzle $500 to buy phony stock; then the bank examiner shows up. Can Souse keep him occupied for four days? The climax is an extended chase sequence.
Cast and Character: W.C. Fields as Egbert Sousè / Cora Witherspoon as Agatha Sousè / Una Merkel as Myrtle Sousè / Evelyn Del Rio as Elsie Mae Adele Brunch Sousè / Jessie Ralph as Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch / Franklin Pangborn as J. Pinkerton Snoopington / Shemp Howard as Joe Guelpe / Dick Purcell as Mackley Q. Greene / Grady Sutton as Og Oggilby / Russell Hicks as J. Frothingham Waterbury / Pierre Watkin as Mr. Skinner / Al Hill as Filthy McNasty / George Moran as Cozy Cochran / Bill Wolfe as Otis / Jack Norton as A. Pismo Clam
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: Henpecked Egbert Sousè has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.
Directors: Edward F. Cline
Genres: Comedy
Location: Lompoc, California, USA
MPAA: Approved
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0032234.jpg
Rating: 7.3
Release Date: 29 November 1940 (USA)
Runtime: 72 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: Was His Face Red . . . And His Nose, Too ! when the bandits took the money . . . and the SAFE !
Title: The Bank Dick
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032234/
Votes: 4,213
Writers: W.C. Fields
Year: 1940
The Bank Dick got rated 7.3.
About the movie: Egbert Souse, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fiancée, is teller. Souse persuades Og to embezzle $500 to buy phony stock; then the bank examiner shows up. Can Souse keep him occupied for four days? The climax is an extended chase sequence.
The Band Wagon got rated 7.5.
About the movie: Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner, not him. But his old friends Lily and Les Martin have an idea for a funny little Broadway show and he agrees to do it. But things begin to get out of hand, when bigshot "artistic" director/producer/star Jeffrey Cordova joins the production, proclaims it's a modernistic Faust and insists on hiring a prima ballerina, Gabrielle Gerard, to star opposite Tony, and it's hate at first sight. And her jealous choreographer isn't helping to ease the tension. The show is doomed by pretentiousness. But romance, a "let's put on a show" epiphany, and a triumphant opening are waiting in the wings. After all, this is a musical comedy!
Baby Doll got rated 7.3.
About the movie: Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan and nineteen year old "Baby Doll" Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has them consummating their marriage on her twentieth birthday, which is in three days, the act to which Baby Doll is not really looking forward. But she does taunt him and other men with her overt "baby doll" sexuality, the baby doll aspect which she fosters by sleeping in their house's nursery in a crib. Baby Doll's now deceased father allowed the marriage on the stipulation that Archie Lee provide Baby Doll financial security as displayed by the most resplendent house in the south. They currently live in a dilapidated mansion with her Aunt Rose Comfort, and although Archie Lee is making some renovations on it, he no longer has the financial means to make it what Baby Doll wants as his cotton ginning ...
The Angry Silence got rated 7.1.
About the movie: The right of every individual to be different from his fellow men is the theme behind this internationally-hailed, British production. The story tells of a man's dilemma when he refused to participate in an unofficial strike, where he works. While vicious, calculated violence brings the other dissenters into line, he goes it alone and is sent to Coventry (given the silent treatment) by his fellow workers. A stirring, thought-provoking film that portrays the human problems and high emotions generated when a man dares to act on the courage of his convictions and dares fight to keep his individual freedom.
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