Topic: W. C. Fields Salute at The Film Forum, NYC

[BeAStooge]

The Film Forum in NYC will screen a salute to W. C. Fields, April 22 - May 3.

April 22 - 23
IT'S A GIFT (1934)
THE DENTIST (1932)
MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (1935)

April 24 - 25
DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935)
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933)

April 25
SALLY OF THE SAWDUST (1925)
THE GOLF SPECIALIST (1930)
THE PHARMACIST (1933)
THE BARBER SHOP (1933)
THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER (1933)

April 26
POPPY (1936)
MISSISSIPPI (1935)

April 27
IF I HAD A MILLION (1932)
TILLIE AND GUS (1933)

April 28
THE OLD FASHIONED WAY (1934)
MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH (1934)
SO'S YOUR OLD MAN (1926)

April 29
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (1933)
MILLION DOLLAR LEGS (1932)

April 30
THE BANK DICK (1940), costarring Shemp Howard
NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (1941)

May 1
RUNNING WILD (1927)

May 1 - 2
MY LITTLE CHICKADEE (1940)
YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN (1939)

May 2
IT'S THE OLD ARMY GAME (1926)

May 3
SIX OF A KIND (1934)
YOU'RE TELLING ME! (1934)

[Jamison]

I'll be spending some time at the Forum. It helps to be a member and save a few ducats. Have never seen NEVER GIVE A SUCKER, so I'm waiting with baited breath (pant-pant). And I can't wait to see DAVID COPPERFIELD and BANK DICK on a big screen for the first time.  Anyone else in the NYC area paln on going to any showings?

[metaldams]

I'll be spending some time at the Forum. It helps to be a member and save a few ducats. Have never seen NEVER GIVE A SUCKER, so I'm waiting with baited breath (pant-pant). And I can't wait to see DAVID COPPERFIELD and BANK DICK on a big screen for the first time.  Anyone else in the NYC area paln on going to any showings?

NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK is probably Field's most surreal film.  Margaret Dumont plays some lonely alien like creature on a mountain top with a lovely young daughter as her only company, and it involves kissing games with Fields.  That alone should wet your appetite.

[falsealarms]

If you can only go to a couple, definitely go with MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (his best, IMO) and IT'S A GIFT (a very close second). THE BANK DICK is good, but not in the league as those, though it gets a bump due to Shemp being in it. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE and 6 OF A KIND also are recommended, as are shorts like THE BARBERSHOP, THE PHARMACIST, and THE DENTIST.

[falsealarms]

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