The Bank Dick

W.C. Fields (screenwriter, starring)
Edward F. Cline (director)
Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio (starring)

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1940. Vintage publicity photograph of W.C. Fields with Una Merkel and Evelyn Del Rio from the 1940 film.

From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.

An American comedy classic, wherein, W.C. Fields stars as a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and becomes the bank security as the result.

Shot on location in Lompoc, California.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 78. Ebert II.


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