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	DVDFILE.COM: THE BANK DICK review
		That someone else is dimwitted bank employee Og, whose natural conservatism is overcome by his ambition to be the son-in-law of Souse.
		It would have made more sense to package these shorts with THE BANK DICK, since they all could have easily fit onto a single-sided RSDL disc and are quite mutually inclusive in their subject matter and in their appeal to the same audience.
		But I think that THE BANK DICK is actually the property of Universal (its logo is on the packaging), so maybe ownership issues necessitated separate releases.
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	dOc DVD Review: The Bank Dick (1940) - Printable
		The Bank Dick stars W.C. Fields as one Egbert Sousé (final accent significant), an irritable and irritated family man who spends his spare time and money at the Black Pussy Café (and Snack Bar), telling tall tales to Joe the bartender (Shemp Howard) and anyone else who will listen.
		When he bluffs his way into a directing job on a one-reel short and accidentally foils a bank robbery, his fortunes begin to improve; a series of improbable coincidences follow, making him a hero and a happy, wealthy man, having earned the respect and love of his wife, his daughters and his mother-in-law.
		But The Bank Dick is by no means painful to watch in and of itself - Egbert Sousé is a classic Fields creation, ignoring the idiots and overriding the pompous in his endless quest to be left alone with his vices.
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	The Bank Dick (1940)
		I don't regard that as a terrible thing, for TBD has plenty of solid company in that category; in fact, what are probably my three favorite film comedies - This Is Spinal Tap, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and Quick Change - provide only the loosest of plots to link them.
		The Bank Dick appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.33:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		The Bank Dick is a faulty piece but it provides enough laughs and silliness to merit interest.
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	:: rogerebert.com :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		W. Fields is the most improbable star in the first century of the movies, a man widely (and accurately) thought to be drunk during most of his adult life, who created a screen character that hated women, children and dogs and could not be redeemed even by the requirements of the Hollywood censors.
		"The Bank Dick" (1940) is probably Fields' best film, but his career resides not so much in individual films as in scenes and moments scattered here and there between his first short subject, in 1915, and his last films in the mid-1940s.
		Consider "The Bank Dick," which in he plays a man named Egbert Sousé ("accent grave upon the e") -- an unhappily married drunk who accidentally catches a thief, is rewarded with a job at the bank and falls in with a con man.
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	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By contrast, the set of The Bank Dick was a tranquil one though Fields' fondness for improvisation added an unpredictable element to the proceedings.
		When Fields' script for The Bank Dick was finally submitted in full (under the pseudonym of Mahatma Kane Jeeves), the Breen Office responded with their usual list of censorship demands and script changes.
		Only the citizens of Lompoc, California (a real town that was the setting for The Bank Dick) were upset by the film because Fields constantly mispronounced the town's name and they felt he portrayed them as foolish and backward.
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	The Bank Dick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bank Dick is a latter-day Fields film, originally released in 1940.
		Probably the best is a scene in which, on the job, he spots a small boy dressed as a cowboy and playing with a gun in the bank lobby.
		The Bank Dick is a W.C. Fields movie that parents could watch with their children.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies2/BankDick.htm (479 words)

	The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		W.C. Fields stars as Egbert SousÃ¨ (Pronounced as "Soosay" but mispronounced as "souse" by many of the people in his town though he is also a souse) a husband who is constantly critized by his family for his drinking and smoking.
		He lated inadvertently catches a bank robber and is offered a job as a guard at the bank.
		Rating 5/5 The Bank Dick is pure Fields and the best of his feature films (with My Little Chickadee a close second).
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	Combustible Celluloid - The Bank Dick (1940)
		As usual, for Criterion, both are top quality; The Bank Dick was transferred from a 35mm master print, and the shorts look great, despite the fact that they were not preserved over the ages with the care that the feature was.
		The Bank Dick is often accused of having no plot, but, as written by Mahatma Kane Jeeves (really Fields himself), the contrary is true.
		The film-directing subplot comes back in the end, after Fields has taken on the job of the bank dick and tried to waylay the bank examiner before he finds out that his future son-in-law has borrowed $500 to invest in beefsteak mine shares.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /bankdick.shtml (819 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > The Bank Dick: Criterion Collection
		Convinced this is the opportunity of a lifetime, Souse has his daughter's boyfriend, Og (Sutton), a bank teller, borrow the necessary $500 from the bank in order to buy the stocks.
		I found The Bank Dick to have lots of funny moments as Souse bumbles through the town; however, there wasn't a lot of plot holding these moments together.
		The Bank Dick is presented in Dolby Mono 1.0.
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	The Bank Dick (1940)
		After being rewarded with the job of bank guard ('dick') to prevent future holdups, he involves his prospective son-in-law as a temporary embezzler when suckered by a con salesman to embezzle bank funds to finance a purchase of Beefsteak Mines stock - a fly-by-night mining enterprise.
		At the bank the next morning to "get a reward or a job or something" from the bank president, Egbert finds that there is only one teller on duty.
		...or to revert to the argot of the underworld, a bank dick.
	www.filmsite.org /bank.html (2379 words)

	The Bank Dick (1940 b 72') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Police take the car of two bank robbers, who fight each other and are caught with Egbert, who is given credit for catching them by Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton).
		Bank president Skinner (Pierre Watkin) hires Egbert as a bank dick, and Egbert tells Og he has detective disguises.
		Bank examiner J. Pinkerton Snoopington (Franklin Pangborn) is diverted by Egbert.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1940/BankDick.html (436 words)

	DVD Authority \| DVD Review of The Bank Dick: Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This makes The Bank Dick a very smooth and fresh comedic piece, even today and warrants a look from comedy fans of all ages.
		The Bank Dick is presented in a full frame transfer, which preserves the original aspect ratio of the film.
		I've seen a few other incarnations of The Bank Dick and this one is the finest edition, by leaps and bounds.
	www.dvdauthority.com /Reviews.asp?ReviewID=2555 (957 words)

	DVD review of Bank Dick, The - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In any event, the availability of Fields' best film, "The Bank Dick" from 1940, on a Criterion DVD provides newcomers with the opportunity to decide for themselves if he was a very funny man or
		Fields loved to play with words, with the sounds of words, and nowhere does it show up better than in "The Bank Dick." It's said he set his story in the town of Lompoc, California, merely because he liked the silly sound of the name.
		After all, the extremely thin plot line of "The Bank Dick" is little more than an excuse to showcase a series of Fields' stage routines.
	www.dvdtown.com /reviews/review.asp?id=4763&reviewid=537 (876 words)

	W.C. Fields - THE BANK DICK
		W.C. Field’s THE BANK DICK (1940) is a film that will either have you in hysterics or leave you scratching your head wondering what all the fuss is about.
		It is the story of one Egbert Sousé (pronounced soo-ZAY, “accent grave on the e”) of Lompoc, California, who accidentally captures a bank robber and is rewarded the job of bank detective (or “dick” in the slang of the period).
		THE BANK DICK is a treasury of quotable Fieldsisms:
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/black_and_white_movies/52503 (485 words)

	A W.C. Fields Dictionary
		argot--means 'slang,' ie.: a "bank dick" is the "argot of the underworld" (The Bank Dick).
		In The Bank Dick a sword and knife are variously referred to as an "assegai"--allegedly used in an attack on Egbert Souse' (Fields).
		Pinkerton Snoopington--bank examiner portrayed by Franklin Pangborn in The Bank Dick.
	www.louisville.edu /~kprayb01/WCWords.html (2658 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Bank Dick, The
		When The Bank Dick was released in 1940, the image of W.C. Fields was more or less a caricature.
		But the humor of Fields went deeper than that, and culminated in what is arguably his most popular and enduring feature.
		He seems oblivious to his eldest daughter’s engagement to a bank teller (played by Grady Sutton, who also appears in the Fields short The Pharmacist).
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=78&eid=89§ion=essay (346 words)

	TCM ~ THE ESSENTIALS
		By the time production began on The Bank Dick, the sixty-years-old W.C. Fields had been in entertainment for forty-three years, in the movie biz for twenty-five, and in Hollywood for more than a decade.
		W.C. Fields intended The Great Man to be the title of his picture, but decided on The Bank Dick instead.
		The Bank Dick turned out to be W.C. Fields' last major film; five more minor ones followed before Fields died on Christmas Day, 1946, at age 67.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /essentials/essential/trivia_bank.html (346 words)

	The Bank Dick: Criterion Collection on DVD - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The bank manager rewards him with a detective job and Egbert takes advantage of this new situation by embezzling funds in order to buy stock in a beefsteak mine.
		All hell breaks loose when a determined bank examiner (Franklin Pangborn) shows up in town to go through the books, and the mayhem ends in a hilarious car chase.
		The film also features Shemp Howard as the local bartender, Una Merkel as Field's daughter, and Grady Sutton as her whining boyfriend.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?715515010627 (225 words)

	The Bank Dick -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bank Dick -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Bank Dick is a 1940 (Click link for more info and facts about comedy film) comedy film in which (United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)) W.
		The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States (Click link for more info and facts about Library of Congress) Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the (Click link for more info and facts about National Film Registry) National Film Registry.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_bank_dick.htm (223 words)

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		Written by (though credited to Mahatma Kane Jeeves) and starring W. Fields, The Bank Dick is a thoroughly soused and preposterous romp.
		An aside: after watching many films from the first half (at the least) of the 20th Century, one may wonder where the hell are all the people of color; the world as Hollywood invents it is white, white, white.
		The ugly, racist stereotypes that are displayed during the sole appearance of a fl man in the movie are so poisonous that absence, by comparison, may be preferable.
	www.a-diction.com /ffreview.php?uffrevid=618 (238 words)

	DVD Review - The Bank Dick (The Criterion Collection)
		While not an amazing film, The Bank Dick does offer a fair amount of fun, laughs and entertainment in it's really too short 72 minutes.
		After foiling the robbery, he's offered a job at the bank as a guard where his possible future son-in-law works.
		At any rate I don't know if that Commentary was a misprint where I read it or Criterion just bailed out at the last second, but the inclusion of one would have been nice, especially if it was to be Bruce Eder.
	www.dvdcollectorshaven.ca /CriReview.asp?ID=346 (810 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Bank Dick
		The unexpected hero of a bank robbery, he is rewarded with the job of detective to guard against future holdups.
		He involves his prospective son-in-law as a temporary embezzler to buy wildcat mining stock, and then holds off the bank examiner via the Mickey Finn route.
		Repeat bank robbery again results in Fields' accepting hero honors, the reward and sudden riches from a film directing contract.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117788869?categoryid=31&cs=1 (360 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Bank Dick (1940)
		Written by Fields under the improbable pseudonym of Mahatma Kane Jeeves, The Bank Dick is filled with Fieldsian situations and character names—bank inspector J. Pinkerton Snoopington (Franklin Pangborn), Sousé's son-in-law Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton), and a bank robber named Filthy McNasty (Al Hill).
		I always watch Fields' work with the same mixture of emotions that colors my viewing of John Belushi—knowing how incredibly funny he could be, and wondering how much his addictions limited his life and career.
		But The Bank Dick is by no means painful to watch in and of itself—Egbert Sousé is a classic Fields creation, ignoring the idiots and overriding the pompous in his endless quest to be left alone with his vices.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=601 (859 words)

	Images - W.C. Fields - The Bank Dick & 6 Short Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bank Dick is one of the all-time great American comedies.
		In general, his acting skills have been horribly underrated, but The Bank Dick largely succeeds because of Fields' blustery presence.
		There are no pie fights or car chases (until the final reel, that is).
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/wcfields (65 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Bank Dick (Criterion Collection) (1940)
		When a fleeing bank robber is knocked cold upon tripping over the park bench where Egbert sits, Souse is hailed as a hero and offered the job of bank guard.
		Souse raises the necessary money by convincing bank clerk Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton), the fiance of Egbert's daughter Myrtle (Una Merkel), to "borrow" some funds from the bank; it isn't really embezzling, explains Egbert, because the mine is bound to pay off.
		Unfortunately, bank examiner J. Pinkerton Snoopington (Franklin Pangborn) comes calling, spelling possible trouble for Souse.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=167 (206 words)

	USCCB Reviews - The Bank Dick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bank Dick -- Classic W.C. Fields comedy in which he plays a small-town curmudgeon who accidentally foils a bank robbery, is rewarded with the job of bank guard and winds up being hired to direct a movie.
		Director Edward Cline backs Fields' brand of eccentric humor with a suitably wacky supporting cast, including Franklin Pangborn as a near-sighted bank examiner, Grady Sutton as a prospective son-in-law and Shemp Howard as an unflappable bartender.
		The following are the classifications used by the Office for Film & Broadcasting in rating each film.
	www.nccbuscc.org /movies/b/thebankdick.htm (228 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Bank Dick, The
		W.C. Fields stars as an unemployed, henpecked drunk who spends most of his time at the Black Pussy Cat café.
		Things take a turn for the absurd when he unwittingly captures a bank robber and lands a job as a security guard.
		The Bank Dick is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=78 (134 words)

	Moviefone: The Bank Dick Movie
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	W.C. Fields Comedy Collection (The Bank Dick / My Little Chickadee / You Can't Cheat an Honest Man / It's a Gift / ...
		In his raucous masterpiece The Bank Dick (also 1940), Fields is "Egbert Souse," lowly bank guard, unlikely hero, and manic driver in perhaps the greatest slapstick car-chase scene ever filmed.
		This special DVD collection includes The Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, It's a Gift and International House.
		Anyway, back to the review: "The Bank Dick" and "It's a Gift" are two of the best darn comedies ever commited to film and texts for so much funny business that followed for years.
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