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It's a Gift

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Summary

Classic comedy starring WC Fields. Harold Bissonette is the henpecked owner of a small-town general store who dreams of peaceful life on an orange grove in California, where he can escape the attentions of his wife Amelia and their two children.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Tony Sloman

Shades of Bacchus! It's the inimitable WC Fields in his most perfectly formed movie. Brilliantly conceived (by Fields himself, alias Charles Bogle), and beautifully structured (by director Norman Z McLeod), this is a milestone in screen comedy, and an emphatic must-see if you've decided you don't care for Fields or have never seen him before. The lengthy two-reel sequence on the porch is one of the funniest sustained sketches in sound cinema, and the store scene with Charles Sellon as blind Mr Muckle has to be seen to be believed. Kumquats will never be the same again. And as for Baby Dunk, not to mention Carl LaFong... Just don't miss it!

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Cast

rolenameHarold BissonetteW C FieldsAmelia BissonetteKathleen HowardMildred BissonetteJean RouverolJohn DurstonJulian MadisonNorman BissonetteTommy BuppBaby DunkBaby LeRoyEverett RicksTammany YoungJasper FitchmuellerMorgan WallaceMr MuckleCharles SellonMrs DunkJosephine WhittellInsurance salesmanT Roy Barnes

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rolenameDirectorNorman Z McLeod

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Languages

English

Available on

DVD

Formats

Black and white

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