The Bank Dick

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1940-11-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

72 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (5006 Reviews)

Director:

Edward F. Cline

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

W.C. Fields Cora Witherspoon Una Merkel Evelyn Del Rio

Writer:

W.C. Fields (original screen play)

Fullplot:

Egbert Sousè, "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 fiancèe, is teller. Sousè persuades Og to embezzle $500 to buy phony stock; then the bank examiner shows up. Can Sousè keep him occupied for four days? The climax is an extended chase sequence.

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