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The Bank Dick (1940)
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Henpecked Egbert Sousè has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard. Director:Edward F. Cline |
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Egbert Sousè
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Cora Witherspoon | ... |
Agatha Sousè
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Una Merkel | ... |
Myrtle Sousè
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Evelyn Del Rio | ... |
Elsie Mae Adele Brunch Sousè
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Jessie Ralph | ... |
Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
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Franklin Pangborn | ... |
J. Pinkerton Snoopington
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Joe Guelpe
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Dick Purcell | ... |
Mackley Q. Greene
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Grady Sutton | ... |
Og Oggilby
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Russell Hicks | ... |
J. Frothingham Waterbury
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Pierre Watkin | ... |
Mr. Skinner
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Al Hill | ... |
Filthy McNasty
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George Moran | ... |
Cozy Cochran
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Bill Wolfe | ... | |
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Jack Norton | ... |
A. Pismo Clam
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Storyline
Egbert Souse, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fiancée, is teller. Souse persuades Og to embezzle $500 to buy phony stock; then the bank examiner shows up. Can Souse keep him occupied for four days? The climax is an extended chase sequence. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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Was His Face Red . . . And His Nose, Too ! when the bandits took the money . . . and the SAFE !Genres:
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Og Oggilby: Golly! Did he make it?
Egbert Sousé: Uh... no. He didn't. Had he been a younger man, he probably would have made it. That's the point. Don't wait too long in life.
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Music by Richard Milburn
Whistled by Shemp Howard. See more »
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The newspaper being read by Egbert Sousé is the Lompoc Picayune Intelligencer. See more »Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the opening bit of dialogue, one of the old ladies points out that there is an "accent grave" over the final e in a character's name, meaning it would be pronounced "Sous-AY", not "Souse". In fact, it's an accent aigu (or acute accent), in both pronunciation and painted on the mailbox she's looking at. See more »Quotes
Egbert Sousé: My uncle, a balloon ascensionist, Effingham Hoofnagle, took a chance. He was three miles and a half up in the air. He jumped out of the basket of the balloon and took a chance of alighting on a load of hay.Og Oggilby: Golly! Did he make it?
Egbert Sousé: Uh... no. He didn't. Had he been a younger man, he probably would have made it. That's the point. Don't wait too long in life.
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"Listen to the Mockingbird"Music by Richard Milburn
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