W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films

7.3

6 votes

2000

1h 55m

Comedy

Overview

A Criterion compilation of "six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Barber Shop, and, of course, the notorious The Dentist." Pool Sharks is his first film ever, released in 1915; the rest are all five of Fields’ talking shorts, released from 1930 to 1933.

Directed by Leslie Pearce, Edwin Middleton, Arthur Ripley, Monte Brice, Clyde Bruckman