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Release: November 9, 2021

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Comedy legend W.C. Fields (It’s a Gift) stars in one of his most famous roles as The Bank Dick. Egbert Sousé (Fields) is an unemployed drunk who divides his time between the Black Pussy Cat Café and his dreadful family. After unwittingly capturing a bank robber, he lands a job as a security guard which leads to complete absurdity. Written by the comedian himself under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves and directed by Edward F. Cline (Fields’ partner-in-gags on My Little Chickadee and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break), The Bank Dick is one of the great classics of American comedy! The uproarious cast includes Una Merkel (42nd Street), Dick Purcell (Arise, My Love), “third stooge” Shemp Howard (Soup to Nuts), Franklin Pangborn (Hail the Conquering Hero), Grady Sutton (Man on the Flying Trapeze), Jessie Ralph (After the Thin Man) and Cora Witherspoon (Personal Property). Special Features: -NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Michael Schlesinger -Theatrical Trailer -Optional English Subtitles

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A collection of classic Buster Keaton shorts showcasing the silent comedian's deadpan humor, daredevil stunts, and inventive visual gags.

Release: February 7, 2017

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Buster Keaton. Keaton is a riot fighting the Yankees, saving his train and winning the love of a pretty girl in one of the greatest silent movies eve made in 1926, The General. The Three Ages (1923) Stars Keaton in a triptych of shorts spanning man's hilarious quest for love through history. Silent with musical accompaniment. Directed by Buster Keaton. B&w/143 min/NR/fullscreen. Director: Clyde Bruckman, Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy Cast: Clyde Bruckman, Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy

Release: April 21, 2026

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W.C. Fields plays the President of Klopstokia, a bankrupt European country that makes a bid for fame and fortune by entering its top athletes in the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Directed by Edward Cline (The Bank Dick, 1940) and co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve, 1950), this madcap, Pre-Code comedy is one of W.C. Fields's most anarchic satires and includes scene stealing performances by comic character actors Jack Oakie, Billy Gilbert, Hugh Herbert and Ben Turpin. Top Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews Million Dollar Legs [Blu-ray] Million Dollar Legs

Release: June 29, 2021

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If you thought the American Wild West couldn't get any wilder, wait till you see what happens when W.C. Fields and Mae West team up for this comedy-western classic, co-written by the leads. W.C. is Cuthbert Twillie, con man and "notions seller," and Mae is Flowerbelle Lee, the shame of her Chicago community. Together they clean up a lawless town, capture the notorious Kissing Bandit, and shoot off the fastest array of one-liners you ever heard. With Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Margaret Hamilton. 84 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers.

Release: July 14, 2020

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In his last starring role, comedy legend W.C. Fields (It’s a Gift, My Little Chickadee, The Bank Dick) plays himself in a takeoff on the eccentricities of filmmaking. It’s a harum-scarum collection of song, slapstick and thumbnail sketches, the likes of which defy dramatic law! The focus of the story is on Fields’ presentation of an imaginative script for a new picture at Esoteric Pictures, Inc. The script turns out to be a vehicle for himself—a hero who makes Superman look like a wimp. It’s a Fields-day on a vaudeville bill, with the bulbous-nosed star in every act! In one he is a Russian mujik sampling fermented goat’s milk; elsewhere he drops 2,000 feet from a cliff; in another he goes a-wooing in a tailcoat requiring two flunkies to carry the tails. He even embarks on a frantic car chase, in vintage Keystone Cops style. The mayhem was staged by the great Edward F. Cline, the director of many classic Buster Keaton shorts and features, including One Week, Convict 13, The Haunted House, The Boat and Three Ages. Special Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Eddy Von Mueller Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at W.C. Fields: Vintage Documentary Trailers

Release: November 16, 2010

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SHERLOCK JR. SYNOPSIS: A movie projectionist and janitor (Buster Keaton) who is studying to become a detective is in love with a beautiful girl (Kathryn McGuire). On a date he presents her with chocolates and an engagement ring. However, there is another man who's also interested in his girl (Ward Crane). One day he is accused of stealing his girlfriend's father's watch. He falls asleep on the job and dreams that he is a Sherlock Holmes-type detective, solving the case of who stole a valuable pearl necklace. THREE AGES SYNOPSIS: Three plots in three different historical periods prehistoric times, ancient Rome, and modern times (the Roaring Twenties) are intercut to prove the point that men's love for woman have not significantly changed throughout history. In all three plots, characters played by Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery compete for the attention of the same woman, played by Margaret Leahy. SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE - SHERLOCK, JR.: Music by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround and 2.0 Stereo, Music by The Club Foot Orchestra, Vintage jazz score compiled by Jay Ward, 15 minute documentary on the making of the film, Audio commentary by historian David Kalat, Stills gallery. THREE AGES SPECIAL FEATURES: Music arranged and directed by Robert Israel in 2.0 Stereo, Organ Score by Lee Erwin, Piano score, Man s Genesis (1912): A nine-minute excerpt of the D.W. Griffith prehistoric romance that inspired Keaton s parody, Visual essay on the film s locations by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson, Three Ages re-cut as a trio of stand alone short films.