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6.9/10   58 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Roy Briant (adaptation) (titles)
Gregory La Cava (story)
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Release Date:
11 June 1927 (USA) more
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Plot:
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering... more | add synopsis
User Reviews:
A Matter of Attitude more (5 total)

Cast

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W.C. Fields ... Elmer Finch
Mary Brian ... Elizabeth
Marie Shotwell ... Mrs. Finch
Claude Buchanan ... Dave Harvey
Frederick Burton ... Mr. Harvey
Barnett Raskin ... Junior
Frank Evans ... Amos Barker
Edward Roseman ... Arvo, the Hypnotist
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Additional Details

Runtime:
68 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Elmer Finch: I'm a lion!
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6 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
A Matter of Attitude, 15 December 2005
8/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Elmer Finch (W.C.Fields) is a good man, married for the second time and working for twenty years in a company as accountant. However, he is not respected by his wife and his stepson and even by his dog. In his work, his boss and colleagues spend an abusive treatment, and clients do not respect him either. His life changes when he is accidentally hypnotized and transformed in a lion, changing his attitude.

"Running Wild" is an excellent comedy, with a great screenplay and performances. The beginning is very dramatic for a comedy, but when Elmer is hypnotized, becomes very funny. The dog is cute and responsible for most of the best sequences, and his mean stepson Junior (Barnett Raskin) is amazingly funny and irritant. The DVD presents in the Extras the "famous sentences" of W.C. Fields, and they are also very ironical and funny. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "O Selvagem" ("The Savage")

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