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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025193230621
Format: Box set, Black & White, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Running Time: 351 minutes
Sales Rank: 9706
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1941
Editorial Review:
Description:
Legendary actor and entertainer W.C. Fields is an American comedy treasure - a headliner who always left audiences laughing for more of his sharp-tongued one-liners, slapstick shenanigans and notoriously caustic wit. Now you can catch more of his unique comedic style in five of his most uproarious films: You're Telling Me!, The Old Fashioned Way, Man on the Flying Trapeze, Poppy and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Loaded with classic comedy routines, the W.C. Fields Comedy Collection: Volume Two is more of Fields at his finest, proving that the master of the one-liner can still keep fans laughing out loud!
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It's a sobering thought that iconoclastic clowns such as W.C. Fields have fallen off the pop-culture radar (as evidenced by the fact that the studio felt compelled to insert the word comedy into the title of this collection). With his penchant for smoke and drink and dim view of such institutions as marriage and small-town America, Fields is just the jolting rebuke for these PC times. This bracing boxed set contains five potent films that are 100-proof Fields with a bonus documentary chaser. Two films capture Fields at his disreputable best. In The Old Fashioned Way (1934), Fields stars as the Great McGonigle, who heads a ragtag traveling repertory troupe that is always just one step ahead of the sheriff. Fields displays his mad juggling skills as well as his antipathy toward children in the classic scene with Baby LeRoy, which climaxes with McGonigle giving the bratty tot a swift kick in the diapers (try getting away with that today). In Poppy (1936), Fields reprises his famed stage role as con man supreme Professor McGargle, who joins a traveling circus and schemes to pass off his daughter as the heir to a fortune. Two other films present Fields as the Rodney Dangerfield of his day, getting absolutely no respect from shrewish wives, monstrous in-laws, and others who bedevil his so-called life, like the succession of four policemen in The Man on the Flying Trapeze, who near simultaneously issue him traffic tickets as Fields tries to attend a wrestling match. You're Telling Me (1934) reveals a somewhat softer side of Fields, who portrays a failed inventor driven to the brink of suicide.
This set also contains the essential Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), in which Fields, as himself, attempts to sell an 'impossible, inconceivable, incomprehensible' screenplay to the studio. Fields films are more deliberately paced than the Marx Brothers' manic romps, all the better to savor Fields' way with words ('what fulgent sunshine,' 'this mundane sphere'). To quote Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles, he uses his tongue prettier than a $2, um, woman of ill-repute. This set's bonus is a 1965 television special that, despite its sweetened soundtrack and lame antics by hosts Wayne and Schuster, offers a cornucopia of classic clips and some genuine insights into Fields' comedy. A toast in anticipation of a Volume Three: May the next round contain Million Dollar Legs and Mississippi. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - If you don't get Fields at first..."then try, try again"...and DON'T give up
"A thing worth having, is a thing worth cheating for."
That may be true, Great Man, yet I am sorry to admit that I could never try to cheat this set to me. Having done such an exquisite job restoring the rest of the very best of one of the most side-splitting and original funny-men to ever enter the screen, Universal deserves all the credit they can get. Not quite as much credit as the man who made it all possible in the first place, though: W.C. Fields!
The debate as to ... Read More
Rating: - Essential for any fan - BUY IT!
Watch The Master at work. Laugh. Repeat.
For those that don't understand or care for Fields' brand of humor, tell them to take a hike while you watch it alone. If they pester you while you are watching it, enjoy having something in common with The Great McGonigle!
Rating: - Fields of Dreams!
If you love ol' W.C. this, and volume one, are must-haves! I guarantee you will laugh and marvel once again at the guy's genius, his delivery, timing, physical comedy, and daredevil political incorrectness. And if you want to turn your kids on to Fields, it's a sure shot- my son was laughing so hard we missed the next five lines of dialogue! Sure not every moment of every film is glowing. Unfortunately the studios seemed to have saddled W.C. with young starlets singing shmaltzy songs - but with the ... Read More
Rating:  - It's About Time!
This much overdue compilation of some of W.C. Fields best work is a companion to Volume One which included the Comedy Classics "It's a Gift" and "The Bank Dick", Field's two best films in my opinion. While this volume does not have a close rival to those two films, the films included here nonetheless have quite a bit to offer any Fields Fan.
"You're Telling Me" features the hilarious extended Golfing Scene with Field's very suspect caddy...
"The Old Fashioned Way" included ... Read More
Rating: - Great DVD, TERRIFIC PRICE!!!
WC at his best, a must have for the old B&W comedy fan...or anyone who enjoys a real master of comedy at work.
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