It's a Gift (1934)
Country: US
Technical: bw 73m
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard
Synopsis:
A grocery store manager has a number of things to contend with, including an elderly customer demanding cumquats and importunate brats from the neighbourhood.
Review:
Above-average vehicle for Fields's talents, with the star's contemptuous asides well in evidence and no musical numbers to gum up the works. As usual the film ambles through its comic situations without pace or crescendo (cf. Laurel and Hardy's rigorously planned sequences) in a manner that at first glance might seem inconsequential or slipshod but in a way is simply more European (an influence on Tati?)
Country: US
Technical: bw 73m
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard
Synopsis:
A grocery store manager has a number of things to contend with, including an elderly customer demanding cumquats and importunate brats from the neighbourhood.
Review:
Above-average vehicle for Fields's talents, with the star's contemptuous asides well in evidence and no musical numbers to gum up the works. As usual the film ambles through its comic situations without pace or crescendo (cf. Laurel and Hardy's rigorously planned sequences) in a manner that at first glance might seem inconsequential or slipshod but in a way is simply more European (an influence on Tati?)
Country: US
Technical: bw 73m
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard
Synopsis:
A grocery store manager has a number of things to contend with, including an elderly customer demanding cumquats and importunate brats from the neighbourhood.
Review:
Above-average vehicle for Fields's talents, with the star's contemptuous asides well in evidence and no musical numbers to gum up the works. As usual the film ambles through its comic situations without pace or crescendo (cf. Laurel and Hardy's rigorously planned sequences) in a manner that at first glance might seem inconsequential or slipshod but in a way is simply more European (an influence on Tati?)