The Bank Dick (1940)
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Written by W.C. Fileds
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W.C. Fields stars as an elderly man with an angry six year old daughter. He is an alcoholic and is a movie director, but gets fired for being drunk. He accidentally foils a bank robbery. He is made a security guard at the bank. He gets his son-in-law to invest in some cheap stock using some of the bank's money. The bank's detective shows up to look at the books and Fields tries to delay him by slipping him a mickey.
Fields is old and this is one of his final movies. The film ends up being somewhat funny, with a pretty good climax involving several cars chasing each other. I've got a knack for seeing the comedy legends at the end of their careers before seeing them in their prime.
6/10
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