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Tillie and Gus

  • 1933
  • Passed
  • 58m
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6.9/10
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W.C. Fields, Baby LeRoy, and Alison Skipworth in Tillie and Gus (1933)
Comedy

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 inheritance, including a ferry franchise... Read allTillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.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 inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.

  • Director
    • Francis Martin
  • Writers
    • Walter DeLeon
    • Francis Martin
    • Rupert Hughes
  • Stars
    • W.C. Fields
    • Alison Skipworth
    • Baby LeRoy
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    506
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Francis Martin
    • Writers
      • Walter DeLeon
      • Francis Martin
      • Rupert Hughes
    • Stars
      • W.C. Fields
      • Alison Skipworth
      • Baby LeRoy
    • 14User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    W.C. Fields, Baby LeRoy, and Alison Skipworth in Tillie and Gus (1933)

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    W.C. Fields
    W.C. Fields
    • Augustus Winterbottom
    Alison Skipworth
    Alison Skipworth
    • Tillie Winterbottom
    Baby LeRoy
    Baby LeRoy
    • The 'King'
    Julie Bishop
    Julie Bishop
    • Mary Sheridan
    • (as Jacqueline Wells)
    Phillip Trent
    Phillip Trent
    • Tom Sheridan
    • (as Clifford Jones)
    Clarence Wilson
    Clarence Wilson
    • Phineas Pratt
    George Barbier
    George Barbier
    • Captain Fogg
    Barton MacLane
    Barton MacLane
    • Commissioner McLennan
    Edgar Kennedy
    Edgar Kennedy
    • Judge
    Robert McKenzie
    Robert McKenzie
    • Defense Attorney
    Ivan Linow
    Ivan Linow
    • The Swede
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • Nosy Man at Gambling Table
    • (uncredited)
    Eddie Baker
    Eddie Baker
    • Riverboat Race Judge
    • (uncredited)
    Brooks Benedict
    Brooks Benedict
    • Poker Player
    • (uncredited)
    Maurice Black
    Maurice Black
    • Bit Part
    • (uncredited)
    Ed Brady
    Ed Brady
    • Barfly
    • (uncredited)
    James Burke
    James Burke
    • Juror
    • (uncredited)
    Eugene Burr
    • Bit Part
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Francis Martin
    • Writers
      • Walter DeLeon
      • Francis Martin
      • Rupert Hughes
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    • Trivia
      W.C. Fields wrote nearly all of his own dialogue to this film as well as several entire sequences in which he appeared, despite frequent objections from the director. After the success of this film, an exhibitor at Paramount announced that the comedian would be permitted full creative control to his following productions.
    • Quotes

      Tillie Winterbottom: Do you like children?

      Augustus Q. Winterbottom: I do if they're properly cooked.

    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)
    • Soundtracks
      Long, Long Ago
      (1883) (uncredited)

      Music by Thomas Haynes Bayley

      Played by an unidentified pianist in Tillie's bar in Shanghai

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    9/10
    One of Fields' "sleepers", Tillie and Gus is a great curiosity.
    "Tillie And Gus" is a "Sleeper" for W.C. Fields. It is not one of his movies that he is best remembered for, but it has several components that make it a great curiosity. First of all, Fields is teamed up again with Alison Skipworth, the craggy character actress, who in her earlier stage career in England was known to be a great beauty. She is also as far as I'm concerned, Fields' greatest female co-star. She interacts with him well as she did in "If I Had A Million" and "Six of A Kind". The two are formerly man and wife in this saga, working as "missionaries" on different locations who are found out for their flim-flam ways and sent packing back home where they are summoned to the dockside of a niece, her husband and infant son (Baby Leroy), who are being swindled out of their inheritance by shyster lawyer Phineas Pratt. The niece owns a run-down riverboat, threatened to be put in mothballs by a newer boat. A race is run to determine which boat has superiority over the other, and who keeps the river franchise. Fields' and Skipworth's goals is to help win the race, receive the money to thwart Pratt, and to kick the bum out! Memorable scenes include The "Missionaries" working together to refix a poker game on the train to their benefit, and Fields' memorable line to the question "You like children?". "Only if they are properly cooked", he says. This film is seldom seen on television and never seen as a video. The rights to this and many other Fields' films are buried in the vaults of Universal Pictures. It should be released for all of us to see again.
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    • Release date
      • October 13, 1933 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Grabben hela dan
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Runtime
      58 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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