BLACK FRIDAY COMC PICKUPS - PART 34: WILLIAM CLAUDE DUKENFIELD

MINIS! OLD MINIS AT THAT! OLD ENGLISH CIGARETTE MINIS! AND FILMS! YEEHAW! I DON'T REMEMBER IF I SCROUNGED THIS ONE BY BEING A CHEAPSKATE OR IF IT WAS ON MY WATCHLIST FROM LAST YEAR BUT EITHER WAY I SOMEHOW GOT IT 

1936 GALLAHER FILM EPISODES - THE MEMORY EXPERT

I LOVE OLD COMEDIES AND W.C. FIELDS IS ONE OF THE ABSOLUTE BEST. HE'S GOT SUCH A TIMELESS CHARACTER AND AMAZING COMEDIC TIMING THAT HIS STUFF IS STILL HILARIOUS TODAY. AND SOMETIMES A LITTLE SHOCKING, CHECK OUT THE SCENE FROM THE DENTIST WHERE HE'S TRYING TO EXTRACT A LADY'S TOOTH. I REALLY WANTED A FIELDS CARD AND TARGETED HIS DAVID COPPERFIELD CARD BUT FOUND THIS ONE FOR A RIDICULOUS FIFTY-FIVE CENTS AND SNAGGED IT INSTANTLY. I TRIED TO BUY IT TWICE! I ACCIDENTALLY HAD TWO TABS OPEN FOR THE CARD AND BOUGHT IT THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE BINGE, THEN GOT REALLY SAD WHEN I REFRESHED THE OTHER TAB THE NEXT MORNING AND SAW IT HAD SOLD. I EVEN COMPLAINED ON TWITTER ABOUT THE JERK WHO TOOK IT AWAY FROM ME UNTIL I REALISED THAT I WAS, IN FACT, THE JERK. I GOT THE CARD I WANTED SO I'M FINE WITH BEING A CARD-THIEVING JERK

I HAD A HECK OF A TIME FIGURING OUT WHAT MOVIE THIS WAS AS A GOOGLE SEARCH ONLY CAME UP WITH THIS TRADING CARD. I EVENTUALLY FIGURED OUT THAT THE MEMORY EXPERT IS THE BRITISH TITLE FOR W.C.'S FILM MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE. THEN I HAD JUST AS MUCH TROUBLE FINDING A COPY, BUT I SCROUNGED ONE UP. THE FILM STILL HOLDS UP, FIELDS TRIES TO TAKE OFF AN AFTERNOON OF WORK TO WATCH A WRESTLING MATCH AND EVERYTHING THAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG DOES. THERE'S SOME GREAT SLAPSTICK BUT MOST OF THE HUMOR IS IN WATCHING POOR FIELDS SQUIRM. IT'S ALMOST CRINGE COMEDY - A BIT WHERE W.C. IS HASSLED BY COPS FOR FIVE STRAIGHT MINUTES IS ANXIETY INDUCING - BUT FIELDS' GOOD NATURED DEMEANOR WHERE HE KEEPS ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES KEEPS IT FUNNY. IT'S ALL WORTH IT AS THE ULTIMATE HAPPY ENDING IS VERY CATHARTIC. A GOOD MOVIE AND A GOOD TRADING CARD