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

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

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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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Not rated

The Dentist (S)

1932 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

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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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Not rated