And now Criterion introduces to one of Vaudeville's enduring characters - W.C. Fields - I won't get too much into the bio of stuff here except to say that the next 6 short films are on a DVD and cover the silent period up to this film, which was possibly his best known and near the end of his career
it's physical humor, with a bit of verbal in there - the W.C. Fields caricature is well known - drinks like a wino, hates women and children - gin blossoms on the nose and the "oh, yesss" line often used.
This is just a short 70 minute movie with two or three little sketches stitched together but in it the fellow has a string of good luck thru no help of his own and ends up being the hero a couple times.
To me, W.C. Fields was a cartoonish character in Bugs Bunny films - I honestly haven't seen anything he's done up til now - I'm sort of not looking forward to the six short films but I'll knock them out in the next couple days - the disk is at the library
Otherwise, an ok film from an actor near the end of his long and varied career - good for 1940's humor but somewhat dated today.
meh - even he'd be the first to say he's not Bardot - LOL
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