Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 14, 2020
- Originally Released: 1941
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean & Leon Errol | |
Performer: | Margaret Dumont, Franklin Pangborn, Mona Barrie, Charles Lang, Anne Nagel, Nell O'Day, Jody Gilbert, Minerva Urecal, Emmett Vogan & Irving Bacon | |
Directed by | Edward F. Cline | |
Edited by | Arthur Hilton | |
Screenplay by | John T. Neville & Prescott Chaplin | |
Composition by | Frank Skinner | |
Art Direction by | Jack Otterson | |
Story by | W.C. Fields | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Van Enger |
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Product Description:
In his last starring role, W.C. Fields plays himself, having a typical day at his studio, Esoteric Pictures. Director Eddie Cline masterfully imparts a certain level of surreal spontaneity to Field's digressions and misadventures. Fields eats breakfast, spars with a sarcastic waitress (Jody Gilbert), and then pitches his fractured script to studio head Franklin Pangborn. The script reading becomes a film within a film, commencing with the hero of the tale (Fields again playing himself) leaping out of an airplane in hot pursuit of a flask of whiskey. He lands on the bed of an innocent young girl and tries to seduce her before her mom (Margaret Dumont) comes crashing in. Fields then escapes over a cliff in a basket. Things get even more bizarre before Pangborn throws him out, and back into a "reality" that culminates in a lengthy, frenetic car chase. There's also some musical interludes courtesy Gloria Jean, a singing star Universal was grooming for success at the time. Though Fields undoubtedly bristled at the studio's insistence he share the bill, the two actually display a touching rapport in their scenes together; just another small miracle in this truly unique and hilarious film.
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- UPC: 738329248048
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