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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781417015740
Format: Box set, Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1417015748
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 09, 2004
Running Time: 373 minutes
Sales Rank: 17748
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 17, 1934
Editorial Review:
Description:
W.C. Fields is an American original, the curmudgeonly master of wit and good, mean fun. In this collection of madcap classics, the famously top-hatted Fields unleashes his unique comic zing, proving himself the king of the one-liner. This special DVD collection includes The Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, It's a Gift and International House. The W.C. Fields Comedy Collection is Fields at his finest, and a must-have for anyone who loves to laugh!
Amazon.com:
For anyone who loves classic comedy, the W.C. Fields Comedy Collection is absolutely essential. Film for film, this may be the best DVD showcase ever devoted to a single comedian, including all five of Fields's acknowledged classics in a sturdy, beautifully designed library-quality slipcase. One could easily lament the relative lack of bonus features (it would have been nice to have some vintage Fields radio shows and newsreel footage), but the inclusion of A&E's 1994 Biography documentary W.C. Fields: Behind the Laughter is sufficiently informative about Fields's life, career, irascible personality, and tragic alcoholism. That's all that's really needed when the films themselves are so timelessly entertaining, and they're all remarkably pristine in sound and image quality. The best way to appreciate Fields's evolving screen persona is to view these films in chronological order: In International House (1933), Fields was merely one of many Paramount stars of screen and radio (including Rudy Vallee, Burns & Allen, Bela Lugosi, Sterling Holloway, and manic bandleader Cab Calloway), but he handily steals the show, invading a Shanghai hotel in his airplane/helicopter and delivering the classic line (to Franklin Pangborn), 'Don't let the posy fool ya!' It's one of Paramount's best all-star revues.
It's a Gift (1934) is a remake of Fields's 1926 silent It's the Old Army Game, and was the first sound feature devoted to Fields's inimitable talent. As beleaguered husband and would-be orange farmer, Fields revives vintage routines from Vaudeville and Broadway, and his first encounter with Baby LeRoy is comedy gold. You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) features Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Fields's classic, still-hilarious ping-pong routine, while 1940's My Little Chickadee matches Fields (as 'Guthbert J. Twillie') with Mae West, whose unforgettable on-screen banter with Fields shows no sign of their notorious off-screen animosity. In his raucous masterpiece The Bank Dick (also 1940), Fields is 'Egbert Souse,' lowly bank guard, unlikely hero, and manic driver in perhaps the greatest slapstick car-chase scene ever filmed. Despite the regrettable absence of Fields's final starring feature Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, this classy five-disc set is a veritable cornucopia of comedy, offering ample proof of Fields's comic genius through classic one-liners, physical routines, memorable costars, and perfect bits of business that never grow old. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - It really is a Gift!
I just want to add that I am glad to see that so many reviewers like "It's a Gift." I don't know how many times I have told folks that this is the funniest movie ever made and drawn blank stares, even from folks like myself, born "at a more comfortable distance from the Apocalypse" (Thanks, Emo!).
I am just deducting a star because it annoys me that the movies are not available separately. All of these have their moments, but IH is not a very good film imho. Still, to get "It's a ... Read More
Rating:  - William Claude Dukenfield's Movie Greats
W C Fields (William Claude Dukenfield originally) Comedy Collection is a fantastic overview of his works. From the time I received the set, I was in love with the collection before even watching the first disc. The packaging is beautiful. Heavy cardboard unravels to display the five discs. As each section unfolds, the cover displays photo's, advertising for the shows and bits and pieces from the various movies. The discs themselves hold a novel value as well, for here was a person who was politically ... Read More
Rating: - Comedic Genius
"It's A Gift" is one of the funniest films of all-time; for that reason alone, you should buy this set. The movie is so great, in fact, that even if the other four films in the set were, say, culled from the worst of Rob Schneider, Pauly Shore, Carrot Top and Soupy Sales (I actually liked him, and thought he was pretty funny, but you get the point), you should STILL buy the set! And the thing is, you get four other Fields movies as a bonus. The Bank Dick is a masterpiece, My Little Chickadee with the ... Read More
Rating: - Extrodianarily Happy
I couldn't have been happier with the shape of this product. The only thing that couldve made it better was having one of the movies I was looking for but has not yet been released on DVD.
Rating: - WC Fields Collection
This is a nice collection of movies from a by-gone era. Classic comedy and antics abound in these family presentable funnies.
They're in black&white, but the real deal (no comercials). It's a shame they don't program these on tv, but society has gotten to sophisticated for honest, simple humor.
Enjoy them and the simple times that were.
Really Great!, for what they are.
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