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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| W.C. Fields | ... | Augustus Winterbottom | |
| Alison Skipworth | ... | Tillie Winterbottom | |
| Baby LeRoy | ... | The 'King' | |
| Julie Bishop | ... | Mary Sheridan (as Jacqueline Wells) | |
| Phillip Trent | ... | Tom Sheridan (as Clifford Jones) | |
| Clarence Wilson | ... | Phineas Pratt | |
| George Barbier | ... | Captain Fogg | |
| Barton MacLane | ... | Commissioner McLennan | |
| Edgar Kennedy | ... | Judge | |
| Robert McKenzie | ... | Defense Attorney | |
| Ivan Linow | ... | The Swede | |
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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. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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A PAIR OF SCOUNDRELS YOU'LL LOVE! (Print Ad- Ogdensburg Advance-News, ((Ogdensburg NY)) 5 December 1933)Genres:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
13 October 1933 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Esperto Contra Sabido See more »Filming Locations:
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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1.37 : 1
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(1888) uncredited
Music and Lyrics by Edwin S. Ufford
Sung a cappella by Alison Skipworth
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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. See more »Quotes
Augustus Q. Winterbottom: I'll bend every effort to win this race, and I come from a long line of effort benders.See more »
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Throw Out the Life Line(1888) uncredited
Music and Lyrics by Edwin S. Ufford
Sung a cappella by Alison Skipworth
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"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.