Flying Deuces DVD & W.C. Fields DVD 2 For Price of One

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Cast

W.C. Fields  - J. Effingham Bellweather

Movies with the Same Personnel
 Take a Chance  (1933, Monte Brice, Lawrence Schwab)
 Sweet Surrender  (1935, Monte Brice)
 Moonlight and Pretzels  (1933, Monte Brice, Karl W. Freund)
 Never Give a Sucker an Even Break  (1941, Edward F. Cline)
 The Bank Dick  (1940, Edward F. Cline)
 It's a Gift  (1934, Norman Z. McLeod)
 My Little Chickadee  (1940, Edward F. Cline)
 A Flask of Fields  (1930, Monte Brice, Clyde Bruckman, Leslie Pearce)

The Dentist Plot 
W.C. Fields stars as the subject of this classic comedy short, which he also wrote the screenplay for. The dentist is a misanthropic, absent-minded sort who keeps an office in the same house that he shares with his rebellious young daughter. One morning she announces that she has fallen in love with Arthur, the iceman. Fields won't have it, and scares the poor Romeo off when he tries to make his daily "delivery." The hubbub makes him late for his golf game. When he tees off, the ball knocks an elderly man out cold but he plays through regardless, trying to cheat wherever possible. Frustrated by a particularly difficult hole, Fields loses his temper and tosses all of his clubs (and the caddy) into a water trap. Back at the office, the dentist locks his daughter in her room to prevent her from eloping with the iceman, and takes out all his frustrations on his patients (whom he refers to as "buzzards" and "palookas"). An attractive young girl naively bends over to show where a little dog bit her, a sophisticated society dame is driven into bizarre contortions while Fields sadistically drills, and a strange "little fella" ends up with a mouth full of broken teeth and birds in his beard. Through it all, the dentist treats everyone with disdain, but his well-deserved comeuppance is on the way.
 
Cast

W.C. Fields  - Dentist
Babe Kane  - Daughter
Arnold Gray  - Arthur the iceman
Elise Cavanna  - Patient (Miss Mason)
Dorothy Granger  - Patient (Miss Peppitone)
Bud Jamison  - Charley Frobisher
Emma Tansey  - Old Lady
Joe Bordeaux  - Caddy
Billy Bletcher  - Bearded patient
Zedna Farley  - Dental Assistant
Bobby Dunn  - Dentist's Caddy
Harry Bowen  - Joe, the pal
Chester Clute  - Nervous patient 
 
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 The Barber Shop  (1933, Arthur Ripley)
 The Bank Dick  (1940, Edward F. Cline)
 It's a Gift  (1934, Norman Z. McLeod)
 The Fatal Glass of Beer  (1933, Clyde Bruckman)
 The Pharmacist  (1932, Arthur Ripley)
 
Movies with the Same Personnel
 It's a Gift  (1934, Norman Z. McLeod)
 The Pharmacist  (1932, Arthur Ripley)
 Never Give a Sucker an Even Break  (1941, Edward F. Cline)
 Running Wild  (1927, Gregory La Cava)
 The Bank Dick  (1940, Edward F. Cline)
 My Little Chickadee  (1940, Edward F. Cline)
 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man  (1939, Edward F. Cline, George Marshall)
 W.C. Fields: Comedy Bag  (1933)

Review
One of W.C. Fields' funniest short works, The Dentist delivers sly, antisocial laughs that are just as funny generations later as when they were first filmed. The picture was considered risqué at the time and still raises eyebrows, especially during an infamous bit with Elise Cavanna. The patient straddles the dentist and hangs from his torso as the drill bores deep into her molar, a hilarious and sinister scene rife with barely disguised sexual innuendos. The Dentist is full of wickedly bawdy humor like this, as well as Fields pouring out both physical and verbal abuse at the entire cast. Modern viewers who know W.C. Fields as little more than a familiar cultural archetype will be shocked by the magnitude of political incorrectness that the man was capable of, but what's more appealing is his razor-sharp timing and a riotous sense of the surreal. The Dentist is a thinking man's slapstick which celebrates rebellious spirit and a man's God-given right to bulldoze his way through life. Though he never takes a single drink onscreen, it's one of the purest distillations of Fields' distinctive comedy.

The Flying Dueces DVD

Plot Synopsis
In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers from Des Moines on a Cook's Tour of Paris. While stopping over at quaint suburban inn, Ollie falls in love with innkeeper's daughter Georgette (Jean Parker). At Stan's prodding, Ollie pops the question to Georgette, who gently refuses because there is Someone Else. Disconsolately, Ollie decides to commit suicide by jumping into the Seine, insisting that Stan join him in his plunge to oblivion. The boys are halted from this drastic action by the timely arrival of Francois (Reginald Gardiner), an officer in the French Foreign Legion. Francois convinces Stan and Ollie that they'll forget all about Ollie's lost love if they join the Legion, and within a few days our heroes are in uniform at an outpost in French Morocco, where they are promptly assigned to laundry detail. Alas, try as he might, Ollie can't forget his beloved Georgette-until Stan suggests that he pretend to forget so that they can get back in their own clothes and head home. This Ollie does, but not before accidentally setting fire to a mountain of laundry. After leaving behind a rather nasty letter of resignation for their scowling commandant (Charles Middleton), Stan and Ollie pack their bags and head for the airport-where Ollie is reunited with Georgette, who turns out to be the wife of their commanding officer Francois! Sentenced to death for desertion, the boys tunnel their way out of their jail cell and hide out in an airplane, which Stan accidentally sends into flight. After a wild and noisy ride, the plane crashes, leading to the flm's hilarious-and somehow touching—"freak" ending. Officially a remake of Les Aviateurs, a French vehicle for Fernandel and Toto, The Flying Deuces also owes a lot to the earlier Laurel & Hardy Foreign Legion farce Beau Hunks. Highlights include Stan and Ollie's impromptu soft-shoe rendition of "Shine on Harvest Moon", and Stan's lunatic excursion into Harpo Marx territory as he plays a bed-spring "harp". Produced by Boris Morros and released by RKO Radio, Flying Deuces is unquestionably the best of Laurel & Hardy's non-Hal Roach vehicles.

Cast

Stan Laurel  - Stan 
Oliver Hardy  - Oliver 
Jean Parker  - Georgette 
Reginald Gardiner  - Francois 
Charles B. Middleton  - Commandant 
Jean del Val  - Sergeant 
Clem Wilenchick  - Corporal 
James Finlayson  - Jailer 
Monica Bannister  - Georgette's Girl Friend 
Bonnie Bannon  - Georgette's Girl Friend 
Eddie Borden   
Mary Jane Carey  - Georgette's Girl Friend 
Jack Chefe  - Other Legionnaires 
Frank Clark  - Pilot 
Rychard Cramer  - Truck Driver 
Billy Engle   
Kit Guard   
Sam Lufkin  - Legionnaires Knocked Out by Corks 
Michael Visaroff  - Innkeeper 
Crane Whitley  - Corporal 
 
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 Way Out West  (1937, James W. Horne)
 Beau Hunks  (1931, James W. Horne)
 The Admiral Was a Lady  (1950, Albert Rogell)
 Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion  (1950, Charles Lamont)
 One Good Turn  (1931, James W. Horne)
 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case  (1930, James Parrott)
 
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 Pardon Us  (1931, James Parrott)
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