W. C. Fields

8/3/03 to 8/24/03

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Past Films

  • NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK

    • Sunday, August 24 5:30

    Fields reaches a peak of surrealism in a comedy that "has to be seen to be believed, and even then it probably won't be."-Time Out. With short The Pharmacist.

  • THE BANK DICK

    • Sunday, August 17 5:30

    "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."-Pauline Kael. With short The Dentist.

  • SO'S YOUR OLD MAN

    • Sunday, August 10 5:30

    Jon Mirsalis on Piano. A rare chance to see one of Fields's best silents. With short Pool Sharks.

  • THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE

    • Sunday, August 10 7:15

    Fields plays a beleaguered paterfamilias in "the kind of burlesque which comes dangerously close to realism."-N.Y. Times, 1935. With short The Fatal Glass of Beer.

  • IT'S A GIFT

    • Sunday, August 3 5:30

    Introduction and Booksigning by James Curtis. Special Guest: Ronald Fields, the actor's grandson. "Fields's definitive study in the horrors of small town family life....easily the most devastating comedy of the '30s."-Time Out. With short The Barber Shop.