"Actor: W.C. Fields"

• Mae West in Hollywood, 1932-1943 (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Mae West went to Hollywood in the early 1930s, she was already a major star. Having sensationalised Broadway, it was time for the movies to receive the same. Her fame allowed her control, picking her co-stars (including a young Cary Grant), receiving screenwriter credits, and baiting censors and audiences alike as the pre-Code era gave way to a more sanitised period in American filmmaking. This six-disc collection brings together all ten of West's classic Hollywood features, from her supporting turn in 1932's Night After Night to 1943's musical extravaganza, The Heat's On. Special Features 4K restoration of I'm No Angel 2021 restorations of Belle of the Nineties, Go West Young Man and Every Day's a Holiday from 4K scans 2018 restorations of Goin' to Town and My Little Chickadee from 4K scans 2017 restoration of She Done Him Wrong from a 4K scan High Definition remasters of Night After Night, Klondike Annie and The Heat's On Original mono soundtracks Audio commentary on She Done Him Wrong by critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson (2021) Audio commentary on I'm No Angel by critic and writer Farran Smith Nehme (2021) Audio commentary on Klondike Annie by academic and curator Eloise Ross (2021) Audio commentary on Go West Young Man by writer and film historian Nora Fiore (2021) Mae West at UCLA (1971): archival audio recording of the great performer in conversation at the University of California, Los Angeles Introduction to My Little Chickadee by Harriet Fields, granddaughter of W C Fields (2021) Lucy Bolton on Mae West (2021): the writer and academic discusses the irrepressible stardom of West Christina Newland on Mae West (2021): the writer and critic looks at West's glamour and attitudes to sex Two Super 8 versions of I'm No Angel: a pair of original cut-down home-cinema presentations, each consisting of unique scenes Super 8 version of The Heat's On Original theatrical trailers New and improved subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with a new essay by Iris Veysey, archival articles, a critical archive, and film credits World and UK premieres on Blu-ray Limited edition of 6,000 numbered units MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED! All extras subject to change

• W.C. Fields Collection | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.00

  Set Comprises: Big Broadcast Of 1938 The Bank Dick You Can't Cheat an Honest Man My Little Chickadee Man on the Flying Trapeze Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch The Old Fashioned Way You're Telling Me! Six of a Kind International House Million Dollar Legs If I Had A Million Mississippi Poppy Never Give a Sucker an Even Break It's A Gift Alice in Wonderland Tillie and Gus

• W.C. Fields - Six Classic Shorts | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £6.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (15.97%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Born on 29th January 1880 W.C. Fields found his break in acting by pretending to drown at an amusement park to attract media attention and visitors. A skilful juggler and a master pool player Fields was known as a distinguished comedian by the age of 19. His memorable voice and even more memorable quotes are priceless. Here he stars in six classic short films: The Pool Shark The Golf Specialist The Dentist The Fatal Glass of Beer The Pharmacist The Barber Shop

• Alice In Wonderland | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £9.24   |  Saving you £2.01 (25.19%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alice In Wonderland (1933)

• My Little Chickadee | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  West portrays voluptuous Flowerbelle Lee, whose reputation is tarnished when she is seen embracing a masked bandit in her bedroom. Forced to leave town until she can prove she is respectable -and married - Flowerbelle boards a train where she meets incorrigible Guthbert J. Twillie (Fields). Believing he's quite a catch, Flowerbelle accepts Twillie's marriage proposal. The newlyweds stop in the town of Greasewood where Twillie's exaggerated tales of adventures earn him the honor of becoming the sheriff of the town and bartender at 'The Last Gasp' saloon. Mishaps magnify as West continues her flirtatious ways leading to one of the funniest scenes in the film - when the masked bandit visits again and he's not at all who Flowerbelle expects!

• W.C. Fields Extravaganza | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £9.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (6.84%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The legendary W.C. Fields cultivated the persona of a misanthropic cynic and many found it hard to tell where the stage character ended and the real person began. The Great Man lives on in his movies and the appreciation of comedy fans everywhere. Here is a collection of films starring the immortal W.C. Fields featuring some of his best loved movies along with cinema rarities. A comedy cavalcade! Disc 1: Comedy Talkie Shorts: The Fatal Glass Of Beer The Golf Specialist The

• Brother Can You Spare A Dime | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £5.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (150.67%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Brother Can You Spare A Dime? is the chronicle of an unforgettable period in American history - twelve painful years from the Wall Street crash to Pearl Harbour. By juxtaposing contemporary news and documentary footage with Hollywood film classics Philippe Mora Sandy Lieberson and David Puttnam create an evocative film scrapbook of America during the Depression. Songs and images stick in the mind: whilst Bessie Smith sings Nobody loves you when you're down and out a ragged child huddles against the bleak landscape. Fortunes dwindle the small man's savings disappear men lose their jobs and the banks go bust. Two American heroes emerge: James Cagney Hollywood's little man who won't be beaten and Franklin D. Roosevelt stepping into the breach as America's new President.

• Vintage Comedy Vol.1 | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £11.25   |  Saving you £7.74 (68.80%)   |  RRP £18.99

  W.C. Fields Six classic short films:The Pool Shark; The Golf Specialist; The Dentist; The Fatal Glass of Beer; The Pharmacist; The Barber Shop Harold Lloyd Here he stars in one classic film Haunted Spooks with additional films featuring Mack Sennett and Our Gang. Charlie Chaplin 6 classic short films: Kid Auto Races At Venice; The Rival Mashers A Night Out; Cruel Cruel Love; Film Johnny; Triple Trouble

• She Done Him Wrong/My Little Chickadee | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £8.33   |  Saving you £5.92 (83.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lowell Sherman (Dir. Lowell Sherman 1933): New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see ""his"" girl not realising she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings a local temperance league leader though. My Little Chickadee (Dir. Edward F. Cline 1940): Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends to marry him for ""respectability."" Arrived in Greasewood City with his unkissed bride Twillie is named sheriff by town boss Jeff Badger...with an ulterior motive. Meanwhile both stars inimitably display their specialties as Twillie tends bar and plays cards and Flower Belle tames the town's rowdy schoolboys...

• Never Give A Sucker An Even Break | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In his last starring role W.C. Fields plays himself having a typical day at his studio Esoteric Pictures. Director Eddie Cline masterfully imparts a certain level of surreal spontaneity to Field's digressions and misadventures. Fields eats breakfast spars with a sarcastic waitress (Jody Gilbert) and then pitches his fractured script to studio head Franklin Pangborn. The script reading becomes a film within a film commencing with the hero of the tale (Fields again playing himself) leaping out of an airplane in hot pursuit of a flask of whiskey. He lands on the bed of an innocent young girl and tries to seduce her before her mom (Margaret Dumont) comes crashing in. Fields then escapes over a cliff in a basket. Things get even more bizarre before Pangborn throws him out and back into a reality that culminates in a lengthy frenetic car chase. There's also some musical interludes courtesy Gloria Jean a singing star Universal was grooming for success at the time. Though Fields undoubtedly bristled at the studio's insistence he share the bill the two actually display a touching rapport in their scenes together; just another small miracle in this truly unique and hilarious film.

• Sally Of The Sawdust | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  In a fascinating departure from the austere moral drama in which he specialized D.W Griffith demonstrates his talents for warm-hearted comedy in Sally of the Sawdust. W.C. Fields made his third screen appearance as Professor Eustace McGargle a lovable confidence man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif (Carol Dempster). Intending to return Sally to her grandparents McGargle learns that her wealthy and esteemed grandfather (Erville Alderson) is a stern ju

• Man on the Flying Trapeze | Blu Ray | (19/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | Blu Ray | (19/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Old Fashioned Way | Blu Ray | (09/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• You're Telling Me | Blu Ray | (19/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Bank Dick | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A W.C. Fields Classic! The Bank Dick features W. C. Fields as Egbert Sous a character who trips up a bank robber and as a result ends up as a security guard!

• W.C. Fields - Classic Shorts | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Includes the following W.C. Fields short film comedies: The Dentist / Pool Shark / The Pharmacist / The Barbershop / The Golf Specialist / The Fatal Glass Of Beer