IT’S A GIFT

USA | 1934 | DCP | 68 min.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Baby LeRoy

In one of the funniest movies ever made, W.C. Fields stars as henpecked husband and forever put-upon “Everyman” Harold Bissonette (accent grave).  Our hero battles clanking milk bottles, hard-of-hearing blind men, barren land plots, and Baby LeRoy all while attempting to make a better life for himself and his family.  And no, he doesn’t know Karl LaFong! Preceded by W.C. Fields in The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933, 20 min.),  a wonderfully bizarre little short about a night that’s not fit “for man nor beast!” (BR)