Leslie Pearce
1887 (138 лет)W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films
Leslie Pearce, Edwin Middleton
W.C. Fields
A Criterion compilation of "six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Barber Shop, and, of course, the notorious The Dentist." Pool Sharks is his first film ever, released in 1915; the rest are all five of Fields’ talking shorts, released from 1930 to 1933.
W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films
Meet the Wife
Leslie Pearce
Claud Allister, Aileen Carlyle
Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to arrive shortly from England. Gertrude is also laying plans to marry Doris Bellamy, her ward and the sister of her first husband, to Victor Staunton.
Meet the Wife
False Impressions
Leslie Pearce
Lloyd Hamilton, Marjorie Beebe
Lloyd, Marjorie and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the gals sell music sheets. He's got eyes for Marjorie, but she feels she can do better, and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.
False Impressions
The Fall Guy
Leslie Pearce
Jack Mulhall, Mae Clarke
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
The Fall Guy
The Road to Hollywood
Mack Sennett, Leslie Pearce
Bing Crosby, Luis Alberni
Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography.
The Road to Hollywood
