Often hailed as WC Fields’ finest, funniest comedy, The Bank Dick features the grumpy great as Egbert Sousé, an old soak who inadvertently foils a bank robbery and lands a job as branch detective. Written by Fields himself (under the waggish alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves), the humour still works wonders in these more PC times: there’s many a chuckle to be had as the irresponsible Sousé embroils his daughter’s square fiancé in a bank scam, gets an auditor legless before lunchtime and generally makes himself a scourge of the moral majority.
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