The Bank Dick (1940)
With W. C. Fields, Una Merkel, Cora Witherspoon, Franklin Pangborn, Grady Sutton, Jessie Ralph, Margaret Seddon, Reed Hadley
Directed by Edward F. Cline
The Bank Dick, released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom, is a 1940 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields. Set in Lompoc, California, Fields plays Egbert Sousé, a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and ends up a bank security guard as a result.
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