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''The Bank Dick'' (released as ''The Bank Detective'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1940 comedy film. Set in Lompoc, California, W. C. Fields plays a character named Egbert Sousé who trips a bank robber and ends up a security guard as a result. The character is a drunk who must repeatedly remind people in exasperation that his name is pronounced ''"Sousé – accent grave'' ''over the 'e'!"'', because people keep calling him "Souse" (slang for drunkard). In addition to bank and family scenes, it features Fields pretending to be a film director and ends in a chaotic car chase. ''The Bank Dick'' is considered a classic of his work, incorporating his usual persona as a drunken henpecked husband with a shrewish wife, disapproving mother-in-law, and savage children. The film was written by Fields, using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves (derived from the Broadway drawing-room comedy cliche, "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!"〔James Curtis, ''W.C. Fields: A Biography'' (2003) Alfred A. Knopf. p. 424. ISBN 0-375-40217-9.〕), and directed by Edward F. Cline. Shemp Howard, one of the Three Stooges, plays a bartender. In 1992, ''The Bank Dick'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ==Cast== *W. C. Fields as Egbert Sousé *Cora Witherspoon as Agatha Sousé *Una Merkel as Myrtle Sousé * Evelyn Del Rio as Elsie Mae Adele Brunch Sousé * Jessie Ralph as Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch * Grady Sutton as Og Oggilby * Franklin Pangborn as J. Pinkerton Snoopington * Shemp Howard as Joe Guelpe * Dick Purcell as Mackley Q. Greene * Russell Hicks as J. Frothingham Waterbury * Pierre Watkin as Mr. Skinner * Jack Norton as A. Pismo Clam * Al Hill as Filthy McNasty * George Moran as Cozy Cochran * Bill Wolfe as Otis * Pat West as Assistant Director * Reed Hadley as Francois * Heather Wilde as Miss Plupp * Harlan Briggs as Doctor Stall * Bill Alston as Mr. Cheek 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bank Dick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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