The Bank Dick (1940)

Directors

Edward F. Cline

Cast

W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard, Grady Sutton, Russell Hicks, Dick Purcell

The story

In a somewhat frowsy home in Lompoc, Egbert Sousé (soused), a hard-drinking, henpecked family man, has strained relations with his slattern wife and waspish mother-in-law over his drinking, smoking and habit of taking money from the piggy bank of his youngest daughter, Elsie Mae and replacing it with IOUs. Sousé prefers to spend his days reading detective stories and patronizing his favorite saloon, the Black Pussy Cat Café and Snack Bar, run by Joe Guelpe. Sousé is on his way to the saloon when Elsie Mae bounces a ketchup bottle off of his head; Sousé attempts to hit her with a potted palm tree but is interrupted when Myrtle, his eldest…

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