The Bank Dick

“Was His Face Red . . . And His Nose, Too ! when the bandits took the money . . . and the SAFE !”

In 1940 Lompoc, California, Egbert Sousé (W.C. Fields) spends his days at the bar and his nights dodging a household of relatives, including his wife Agatha (Cora Witherspoon). When a robber trips over the bench he's lying on, the town takes him for a hero and gives him a job as the bank guard. Edward F. Cline lets him stand there in his rumpled suit, the bank's money in easy reach.