It's a Gift (1934)
It's a Gift (1934)
DVD5 | ISO+MDS | PAL 4:3 (720x576) | 01:05:08 | 3,37 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Comedy, Classics | 1 win | USA
DVD5 | ISO+MDS | PAL 4:3 (720x576) | 01:05:08 | 3,37 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Comedy, Classics | 1 win | USA
In a departure from his usual misanthropic characters, W. C. Fields plays a mild-mannered, small town shopkeeper who is constantly hounded by his family, customers, and assorted strangers in It's a Gift (1934). The result is one of his funniest films and allows him to portray Harold Bissonette as the classic underdog, one whose calm perseverance under duress is finally rewarded at the end: Harold's dream of owning an orange ranch becomes a reality.
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It's a Gift (1934)
W.C. Fields, one of the great comics of the early days of cinema, was a true one of a kind. His nasally monotone voice, big bulbous nose, and straw hat all contributed to one of the most preposterous personages in film. It's a Gift is one of his best remembered films, and landed a spot on the AFI's list of 100 funniest movies.
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Today's climate of stiflingly political correctness makes me wonder if the time is ripe for a revival of Fields' popularity. Fields was a daring comic in his day, stomping over all kinds of taboos with respect to his character's treatment of children. He'd often kick a kid in the rear and make such retorts as, "Kid, why don't you go play in the street?" He got away with it because the kids in his movies were unfazed by him and usually got the upper hand with kicks and retorts of their own. Still, the act was a sharp contrast with the other, more lovable comics of the day.
It's a Gift (1934)
Never was a film so well titled. Along with THE BANK DICK this is the finest, funniest movie W.C. Fields ever made. It's also a rollicking spoof of middle-class marriage and mainstream ambitions.
It's a Gift (1934)
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Fields appears as Harold Bissonette, a small-town shopowner with selfish children and a nagging wife. When his family isn't making his life miserable, his customers and neighbors are. He dreams of the good life and a California orange grove he's purchased with an inheritance, but the hostile world won't even let him get a decent night's sleep. (In a memorable scene poor Harold copes with a noisy milkman, a grape-wielding baby, a porch swing chain and an obnoxious saleman looking for one "Karl La Fong".) When Harold and family finally make it to California, they learn he's been swindled, but, predictably, he gets the last laugh.
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IT'S A GIFT is almost nonstop laughter, loaded with Fields' patented sight gags, slapstick, and dialogue uttered out of the corner of his mouth. Fields resurrected much of this material from other sources, such as his silent film IT'S THE OLD ARMY GAME and the 1925 play The Comic Supplement. He also drew on his memories as the son of a Philadelphia pushcart vendor for some of the story, which he wrote under the name of Charles Bogle. Though Norman McLeod was the nominal director, Fields picked his own cast and essentially ran the film, and his wonderful, caustic humor comes through on every frame.
It's a Gift (1934)
It's a masterpiece, and Fields' definitive study in the horrors of small town family life. Every person and thing around causes sublime winces of irritation, from the town's horrid disabled citizen Mr Muckle, and a passing insurance salesman looking for 'Karl LaFong', to a squeaking hammock and a rolling coconut. And Fields himself is so curmudgeonly that he almost snatches food from his son's mouth. There's little sentiment (or plot) to provide any relief, either; the film's string of set pieces (three of them taken from the 1925 Ziegfeld Follies) maintains a relentless pace and tone, making this easily the most devastating comedy of the '30s.
It's a Gift (1934)
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