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Like the Marx brothers' The Cocoanuts a year earlier, 1930's "The Golf Specialist" mines humor from high jinks in sunny Florida, where Fields is nearly upstaged by a stone-faced golf caddy. The classic "The Dentist," despite the later addition of strident musical cues, is presented in its entirety, including an oft-censored bit in which Fields tugs a molar from a woman who's wrapped around him in a highly suggestive position. "The Pharmacist" and "The Barbershop" are variations on the theme, allowing Fields to toss off bons mots and scathing sarcasm, but it's the anomalous "The Fatal Glass of Beer"--a hilarious send-up of Yukon gold-rush adventures--that proves an unlikely highlight. It's typically sour-pussed in its agenda, with a running gag (involving the line "It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast") that just grows funnier with each repetition. Fields's comedy wasn't fully developed here--he became masterful in later features--but 6 Short Films is crucial in demonstrating his rapid refinement of the vintage Fields persona. --Jeff Shannon
| ACTORS: | W.C. Fields |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Leslie Pearce |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 09 December, 1932 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion Collection |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 715515010726 |
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Customer Reviews of W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films - Criterion Collection
4 Out Of 6 Ain't Bad! This DVD contains all of Field's short films. Four were produced for Mack Sennett in 1932-3, late in Sennett's career. Sennett falsely claimed to have "discovered" Fields. No matter; the Sennett shorts are all wonderful and are all 5-star films. My favorites are the hilariously sadistic and borderline lewd film "The Dentist" and "The Fatal Glass of Beer", a surrealistic and bizarre parody of bad melodramas. "The Pharmacist" and "The Barbershop" also have a lot of fine moments.
There are two other shorts which are clunkers as films, but are valuable as documentation of the routines Fields did for "The Ziegfeld Follies." "The Pool Shark" is a poorly filmed silent version (1916) of Fields' pool routine. "The Golf Specialist" is a very early and very primitive sound film.
Not for Children
W.C. Fields is one of our greatest comedians and a National Treasure. His humor was meant to be enjoyed by intelligent, sophisticated adults, not snot-nosed dilletantes. Perhaps the first reviewer should move out of his mother's basement, get a job and spend a few years in the real world and view Mr. Fields work again. Then I may be interseted in his opinion.
W.C Fields: the C stands for not funny
Maybe the humor was left out during the restoration process, but it's more likely that there was no humor to begin with. This is nothing like The Three Stooges, The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, or Laurel and Hardy. It's not amusing at all; it's just lame. The one-liners aren't funny, the gags are stupid, and the acting is terrible. There's nothing humorous about people with high-pitched, annoying voices. If someone recommends this to you, punch that someone in the face because they are doing you a great injustice.
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