Larry Kart Posted October 9, 2014 Report Share Posted October 9, 2014 Watching W.C. Fields' "The Bank Dick" last night (and sadly being reminded of how lame it is compared to, say, Fields' brilliant "It's a Gift"), I noticed that one of the two would-be bank robbers is named Filthy McNasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 9, 2014 Report Share Posted October 9, 2014 Wow!!!!! Bloomin' 'eck, Tucker! Horace would have been of the right age group to have got Fields in the immediacy of his popularity, I guess. Illumines the important point that great artists are, usually though not invariably, as human as the rest of us. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted October 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2014 Other characters from “The Bank Dick” (Fields wrote the script under the pseudonym "Mahatma Kane Jeeves") are: J. Pinkerton Snoopington (the bank examiner) J. Frothingham Waterbury (the bank director) A. Pismo Clam (the drunken film director) Then of course there’s Fields’ character, Egbert Souse, pronounced “Soo-SAY" [“accent grave on the ‘e’”] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 9, 2014 Report Share Posted October 9, 2014 I remember the name J Pinkerton Snoopington. Must have seen that film back in the days when I watched TV. But I don't remember Filthy McNasty. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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