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Friday, Nov 23, 2001
7:30pm
The Bank Dick
Respectable people had best avoid this comedy; if they see it, they may catch a spitball in the eye. Fields snarls out his contempt for abstinence, truth, honest endeavor, and human offspring. No maiden escapes his lewd suggestions; no shrew escapes his foul derision. This unregenerate individualist shakes the whole barrelful of middle class virtues, and says, "Look, this barrel's full of stinking fish." There is more Fields and less irrelevant plot in this one than in most of his films-and it ends in a great chase sequence. Fields wrote the script, which is signed Mahatma Kane Jeeves.
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