Screenplay: W.C. Fields
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by W.C. Fields. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast W.C. Fields · Gloria Jean · Leon Errol · Billy Lenhart
Plot Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress....
6.2
57 votes
6.2
57 votes
The Bank Dick
1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast W.C. Fields · Cora Witherspoon · Una Merkel · Evelyn Del Rio
5.9
236 votes
5.9
236 votes
My Little Chickadee
1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast Mae West · W.C. Fields · Joseph Calleia · Dick Foran
Plot Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends...
5.8
36 votes
5.8
36 votes
Pool Sharks (S)
1915 · Movie · 10 min. · United States
Direction Edwin Middleton
Cast W.C. Fields · Marian West · Larry Westford · Bud Ross
Plot Two ardent suitors for the hand a pretty young woman carry their fight from an picnic to a test of skill in an indoor pool hall. After a series of...
5.8
32 votes
5.8
32 votes
It's the Old Army Game
1926 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast W.C. Fields · Louise Brooks · Blanche Ring · William Gaxton
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The Pharmacist (S)
1933 · Movie · 19 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Ripley
Cast W.C. Fields · Marjorie Kane · Elise Cavanna · Grady Sutton
Plot A hard-working, hen-pecked pharmacist, harried by a shrewish spouse, dysfunctional family, and demanding clientele, maintains his patience and a stoic optimism by imbibing frequent martinis. His termagant wife and self-absorbed...
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast W.C. Fields · Edgar Bergen · Charlie McCarthy · Constance Moore
Plot Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble, especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Meanwhile, Whipsnade's son and daughter,...
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Clyde Bruckman
Cast W.C. Fields · Mary Brian · Kathleen Howard · Grady Sutton
Plot Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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The Golf Specialist (S)
1930 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Monte Brice
Cast W.C. Fields · Allan Bennett · William Black · Naomi Casey
Plot At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.
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The Dentist (S)
1932 · Movie · 21 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Pearce
Cast W.C. Fields · Marjorie Kane · Arnold Gray · Dorothy Granger
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The Barber Shop (S)
1933 · Movie · 21 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Ripley
Cast W.C. Fields · Elise Cavanna · Harry Watson · Dagmar Oakland
Plot Barber O'Hair has a vegetarian wife at home a pretty manicurist at work. A dog sits in the barbershop which O'Hair explains: "One day I was shaving a man and...
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