W.C. Fields Movies

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Features Chico Marx and W.C. Fields

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chico Marx

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Goodman Ace

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peggy Hopkins Joyce

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Genre: Family

Cast: Charlotte Henry

Old fashioned riddles and answers are flashed on the screen, together with non-stop film clips of vintage comedy routines in the background. Cameos...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: W.C. Fields

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...

Genre: Music

Cast: George Raft

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an ordinary young man who lives an extraordinary life, filled with people who help and hinder him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew

Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pauline Lord

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marilyn Miller

The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle before she dies. Years later...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carol Dempster

A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at...

Genre: Music

Cast: Eleanor Powell

Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dudley Moore

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Fonda

A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Bergen

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vilma Banky

Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edgar Bergen

The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mae West

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

A Criterion compilation of "six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Bobby Jones is playing golf with his buddies, oblivious to the fact that they are being watched by a drunken juggler.

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Cast: W.C. Fields

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walt Disney

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one...

Genre: History

Cast: Dan Butler

Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred's estranged wife Adele is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carol Dempster

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Allen