The Bank Dick (1940)
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Henpecked Egbert Sousè has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard. (www.imdb.com/title/tt0032234/)
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Was His Face Red . . . And His Nose, Too ! when the bandits took the money . . . and the SAFE !
 

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  • "Mahatma Kane Jeeves" (the pseudonym used by W.C. Fields as screenwriter) is a play on words from stage plays of the era. "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!"
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  • The newspaper being read by Egbert Sousé is the Lompoc Picayune Intelligencer.
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  • At the end of the movie, Egbert Sousé is whistling "Listen to the Mockingbird" just as Joe the Bartender comes onto the screen. Joe is played by Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges fame, and "Listen to the Mockingbird" was the Three Stooges` theme music.
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  • Universal`s censors initially objected to W.C. Fields` script and demanded many changes. Director Edward F. Cline suggested that Fields should go ahead and film it their way, and that the front office wouldn`t notice the difference. They didn`t.
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  • At one point, W.C. Fields`s character falsely brags, "In the old Sennett days, I used to direct Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the rest of `em." This movie`s director Edward F. Cline` did co-direct several of Buster Keaton`s early short subjects.
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  • Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
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  • In 1992, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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  • Screen credits erroneously list Al Hill as Filthy McNasty and George Moran as Cozy Cochran, but their correct role identifications are Repulsive Rogan (Hill) and Filthy McNasty (Moran).
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  • Lompoc is properly pronounced "Lompoke". It was also founded as a Temperance town, probably another reason Fields picked it as his hometown in this film, and the towns people of the day disliked Fields for these two reasons.
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