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The Bank Dick
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.
Plot
Hard-drinking family man Egbert Sousé has strained relations with his wife and mother-in-law over his drinking, smoking and habit of taking money out of the piggy bank of his younger daughter Elsie Mae and replacing it with IOUs. He tries to hit Elsie Mae with a concrete urn but is interrupted when his older daughter Myrtle wants to introduce him to her fiancé Og Oggilby.
More details
| author | W. C. Fields |
|---|---|
| director | Edward F. Cline |
| editor | Arthur Hilton |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | bank examiner bank robber break drink family man getaway car lunch break mine piggy bank shoot smoke snoop |
| musicBy | Charles Previn |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | crime comedy |