The Dentist (1932) W.C. FIELDS

[@Edelweiss-hh6tk]

I loved that vintage kitchen and those vintage clothes.

[@suzieqwonder3089]

It’s amazing how *trim* W.C Fields was when he initially starred in films. Most of us (myself, at least) remember him as an overweight older man wearing fancy clothes, always puffing away at his cigar with drink in tow. I’ve come to appreciate his many characteristics, always funny & full of interesting shenanigans! Now I know why he was such a well-known legend! I’m really enjoying these short films he was obviously known for; some of his actions, antidotes & gags will cause me to burst out in laughter ~ (I wonder how many of his skits were pure ad-lib) ~ Thx a million!

[@bjbell52]

In his early days he NEVER drank alcohol but carried a trunk full of it just so that other actors would visit him in his trailer. Alcohol would interfere with his coordination and he really needed to watch that because at the time he was the world's greatest juggler.

[@DoubleDoubleWithOnions]

They've been searching for the ball for 20 minutes and the group ahead isn't off the green yet. I'd go ahead and hit also.

[@garydavidderby]

I'M GETTING OLDER IM LIKING THESE OLD MOVIES MORE NOW

[@ritchievernon8099]

😂😂😂😂😬🤣😅😆

[@ritchievernon8099]

Sounds like a demanding Trump on the golf course! 🚨

[@ritchievernon8099]

Can you imagine Trump as a dentist? 😬😂🎆🚨

[@MissAbyssss]

@@ritchievernon8099 And now we're his patients again... 😭

[@MrTwelvecaesars]

Because they are simpler yet kind of fascinating. Soothing

[@WalterJoergLangbein]

88 years later....I do enjoy the genius W.C.Fields! He was a giant!

[@ggrarl]

"Nonsense, my boy, I'm only 5'8" myself."

[@SeanNewhouse-mv9ez]

I love this window into time for well before I came along

[@daffidavit]

No wonder I'm so warped in my old age. I grew up watching stuff like this when I was 5 years old along with the 3 Stooges and Abbott and Costello. Yuc Yuc, Mee mee mee. Ruff Ruff.

[@d.g.n9392]

2 fingers in the eyes, donk!

[@susansauls8902]

It's wonderful to have had a childhood that warped us, wasn't it?!

[@ross8474]

God you must be old

[@Face2theScr33n]

Warped? This stuff seems pretty on-the-level, I'll have you know! Say, where can a guy get a cold drink around here 😉

[@gregmargaitis5651]

I think the artistic ability of Fields is way over your intellect!

[@RetroFilmRush]

I remember watching this as a kid with my grandmother. It was probably a holiday and both of us laughed and laughed

[@needtoknowbasis3499]

lies

[@MrTwelvecaesars]

❤awesome

[@lamibonxd]

love watching older films that i otherwise would never considered seeing. considering i was born 70 years after this film😂😂

[@manuelcampos2357]

WC Fields was one of the funniest comedians of his time! I’ve been watching these movies for over 50 years. I’m 77 and I still think he is the funniest comedian.

[@dearprudence2260]

When I was a kid, I enjoyed all the things my grand folks did, from T.V. to radio to vaudeville; not merely the contemporary programming available to me. To this day, I enjoy an old radio program as much as anything recently done. I feel fortunate, I'm not sure why. Fields for example was a comedic master, long before my time, but 'comedy' for me anyway has no 'contemporary' meaning. I can't say thank-you more sincerely enough to those of you who make it a point to post these critical treasures.

[@tankbenson484]

The golf scene was very hilarious! He's an original comedic genius.

[@johnledford694]

The golf scene was a killer. How 'bout the lady with her legs wrapped around him in the dentist chair? Rather risqué for 1932.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

The Hays code only came in in 1934. Probably in response to films like this.

[@hyacinthlynch843]

'The Fatal Glass of Beer' is also another great Fields short.

[@SherryHill-k5y]

I love that movie!! "Not a fit night out for man nor beast!"😂

[@matthewupsonphotography2378]

My father really enjoyed WC Fields and we would watch his movies together. One of my favorite lines is - Not a fit night out for man or beast.

[@jamesbeshears6717]

Mathew my favorite line of his... Gimme my club...my Canadian Club. My father's drink of choice

[@ramblerdave1339]

"Any man who hates dogs and small children, can't be all baaad"

[@nbrown8464]

I have loved W.C. Fields since I was a kid. And I’m 61. I appreciate you posting this.❤️

[@lion-667]

Me too and I'm now 62.

[@dimidomo7946]

Pizza, I could watch this condensed comedy over and over again. Those actresses, for some peculiar reasons, just screamed sexy! And W.C.'s ball drop off the shoulder blade is riotious. Well done! 🍕

[@paisley293]

That scene when she has her legs wrapped around him reminded me of Carol Burnett and her shenanigans. Omgosh!! Sooooo hilarious!! I haven't laughed so much in years!!

[@sunnyadams5842]

Yes!! I was put mind of Carol Burnett, too, from the moment she walked in. Funny Stuff!!!

[@dorothysmith3120]

I said the same exact thing she resembles Carol alot

[@warrenoleary2168]

1968's Movie : The Shakiest Gun in the West with don Knotts are a recent dental school graduate lifted this movie for a redux in his remake.@@sunnyadams5842

[@danfarris135]

Thank you for sharing this gem. These were old when I was new. Now that I’m old it’s like seeing an old friend again

[@ssnoc]

So very true.

[@bluecollar58]

Well said

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

How old are you?

[@MahmoudAbdulRaul-et6fc]

WC fields was nostalgic. This was the ERA i remember:)

[@colinglass7929]

The unmistakable w c fields Yeah you proberly know this already . Incredible to think this film was made in the thirties w c fields was way ahead of his time Even today This film is as funny and fresh as ever so are all his other films. W C FIELDS being very funny and completly original I was born in 1958 I love this guy .Who was a master of his art a marvolous entertainer wonderfull

[@dreamcruzer4743]

I remember watching this with my sister when we were very young. We thought it was hysterical. RIP Susan

[@suzannejensen275]

My Grandfather had his own ice and coal business so my dad worked for him from age 14 till 17 when he joined the Navy. My grandmother and my mother even though it been years since my dad worked as an iceman used to joke about the iceman fathered their children people would be in shock till they said that the iceman was their husband. LOL I loved you posted this I needed a good laugh😂

[@HugoStiglitz1000]

Thank you for posting this. I was laughing so hard my stomach hurts. I needed that.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you. 🍕🍕🍕

[@Mike-pj1kv]

I've never seen WC Fields young like this. Pretty cool.

[@expat2010]

Love these risque pre-code movies. :)

[@robertmarier5987]

I first saw this during my freshman year of dental school. good training

[@duncansmith8992]

😂

[@ATINKERER]

Great! Funny, racy, and with a lot of humanity. Some of the gags are telling of the times. The exchange "What is it? - Water. - No thanks." Is about Prohibition that was in force at the time. There are lots of things going on here, all clever, and a some things we don't pick up on now in a changed culture almost 100 years later. We're lucky to still have this film.

[@johnnybrown5852]

O.o

[@EmilyTienne]

By the following year, 1933, prohibition was lifted.

[@edwardurben199]

Jackie gleason

[@edwardurben199]

Sa Soupy

[@stevewhite8059]

@buzzclick500 "It rusts pipes"

[@davidcaracappa8798]

This is one of my favorite movies of all times.

[@vpistilli]

I was crying half way through this. WC was great then, and still great!

[@manuelcampos2357]

You were born warped! WC Fields is one of the funniest comedians. I’ve been watching him for more than 50 years. My mind’s not warped. My friend and our wives watched a four hour movie show at the Fisher Theater in the 70’s. I have some movies of him. He’s one of the funniest comedians of all time! 👍😂😂😂

[@sirtalkalotdoolittle]

I remember reading about this film as a young kid and imagining it was like a skinimax film (I was 12). Years later I saw it and it was worth the wait, simply because it was so much better than I imagined.

[@scousejohn5975]

what a great little film , full of one liners

[@GypsyHunter232UK]

I never went to school with WC fields. He was a great guy an an American movie icon . Just an all round great guy .

[@bluegtturbo]

About 100 years later and still hilarious - that scene with the chick with her legs around his waist getting dragged around - how it got past the censors is a mystery...I love WC!

[@PizzaFLIX]

There were no censors yet! This is pre-code W.C. Fields.

[@EmilyTienne]

Precode. By the 1940s this would have been forbidden.

[@thomashughes_teh]

I don't think she was wearing a bra either. My first thought was that this was pre-code. What was that he removed from his pocket?

[@tucsonjohn829]

The part where the woman has her legs wrapped around him was censored by the Hays Office for many years. I am grateful that this copy still exists and was released on KZbin

[@darknessanddistance4469]

@K Ray maybe you could repeat that... I was busy reading the Bible,"looking for loopholes..." ... by the way, the part of the female patient who wraps her legs around Fields during the tooth extraction was played byElise Cavanna, who worked with fields in the Earl Carroll vanities in the late 1920s. the dentist sketch originated in this show so I assumed that perhaps Miss kavanah was performing her original role. and she may not have been a hottie, but she certainly wasn't a man in Drag. A brief clip of fields performing this in rehearsals for the Carroll vanities in 1928 actually exist. You can see it on the Brad Smith Channel on KZbin.

[@theresaholguin699]

So awesome funny as hell. W. C. was a genius. I wish he was here now. He would have so many fans that would love him. In all the world comedians. I would have loved to meet W. C., The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Red Skelton and Harold Lloyd. Laurel and Hardy. Harry Langdon. These comedians were geniuses

[@bjbell52]

Fields would often write his own movies but never took credit with his own name. He made up name like Charles Bogle, Otis Criblecoblis, and Mahatma Kane Jeeves - the last name was a take on broadway where the rich guy always told his butler "My hat, my cane Jeeves".

[@christiness4879]

" is he standing in a hole, no he just a small fella, send him in, I'll fix him " PURE COMEDY GENUIS WC FIELDS

[@aaronTNGDS9]

Where are my glasses? They're on your head...Where's my newspaper? You're sitting on it. ....Where're my golf clubs? They're in your golf bag. Etc.---Love WC Fields.

[@bayawnina]

Ur right!

[@thaisdarosa2100]

A mean and nasty guy... on screen and in real life.

[@jbryder]

I saw this movie as a kid at a day camp for kids at a science museum. At the scene where the lady with the hat walked in, I still remember hearing a boy in the audience say, "That's Carol Burnett!"

[@theresaholguin699]

Always funny no matter how many times I watch this. W.C. was one of a kind

[@liamroberts9047]

Hello Theresa, How are you doing?

[@hughhrobowski887]

Bring back these movies .

[@Sokx41]

At the beginning, they show what everybody had in their kitchens in the 1920s and early 1930s, an icebox, which we now call a refrigerator. I called it an icebox when I was a kid in the 1940s because that's what my parents called it, but we never had one, only the electric refrigerator. This is the first time I recall ever seeing how it operated: ice on top.

[@feralbluee]

i used ice box right up throigh the '60's. i said record player, too. didn't even get as far as hifi LOL

[@tomitstube]

first time for me too, heard the term but didn't know it was anything other than a refrigerator with an "ice box" that froze stuff. this apparently was the cooling mechanism. wikipedia says ice boxes were referred to as "refrigerators" by people in those days. they became "ice boxes" after electric refrigerators were invented. selling ice was big business back in the day. shipped everywhere, especially down south.

[@johnweir3168]

In some models the ice was on the side. There was a pan under the ice to collect the water as it melted.

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

What about the radar range?

[@kh23797]

WC threatens his daughter that he'll buy a "Frigidaire"...

[@AnexoRialto]

My grandfather was a dentist in Ohio around the same time as this short. Used to make house calls. I still have the box where he kept his drills.

[@nedpoines8104]

Before his career in movies, he was a world class juggler.

[@lynnpurcell5225]

That was hilarious! Thanks for posting. He really was a giant as far as comedy goes. I laughed so much and then I laughed again. 😅

[@BavonWW]

One of the great classics!

[@RS-cb7nm]

Great show. Cant get this quality anymore!!!!!

[@williamopalewski651]

Love these pre code movies. You can practically get away everything in those.

[@tomcurran8470]

Not just pre code, but pre WOKE, LOL.

[@pgh45rpms]

At 8:53 W C Fields lets out with, "Ah the hell with it." And the way he carries the patient around the room at 17:07 could put censors in an uproar.

[@zekelucente9702]

When I had my wisdom teeth pulled the oral surgeon called me the next day to see how I was doing and I told him I was ok, but my chest hurt and he told me he had to climb on my chest to get leverage. My dad was a dentist and told me that wasn’t uncommon. Thank goodness for general anesthesia.

[@turbo1234ist]

Fields was brilliant!

[@davidsherrick2577]

Gotta love Bud Jamieson from 3 stooges fame as his golf buddy.. didn't see him in the credits.. But Fields is just too funny.

[@im1who84u]

Bud also played a patient of The Three Stooges when they were dentist.

[@elixtido1448]

I was about to post about seeing Vernon Dent here . . . glad you corrected me first, would have been embarassing

[@alwaysblake148]

1932. And it is funny and brilliant now. The mark of a comic genius.

[@jsilence418]

some of this was pretty suggestive for that period, he rocks! thanks .

[@mars188]

A slap on the butt for back then wow

[@1Rdby]

Wafflezombies1964 And that was his daughter! This was pre-code, but that straddling scenes at 17:00 was definitely something you wouldn’t see in mainstream film until at least the 70s!

[@alvexok5523]

Hope for the planet, yes, it was all suggestive for that time period, but not that suggestive compared to what goes on today.

[@alvexok5523]

1Rdby, yes, that straddling stuff was not shown again until the 1970s. But in the next several decades after the 1970s, it got much more suggestive than any pre code early 1930s material ever was. Pre code never had what we had after the 1970s and what we have today, including full frontal nudity and fully nude sex scenes in films in regular movie theaters, strings of F bombs in films, TV shows, etc., millions and millions of porn videos on the internet and everywhere. The world was still less raunchy back then than it is today, even with all the speakeasies back then. Now violence, that's another story. Violence was not better back then than today, with all the gangster controlled speakeasies and such.

[@HooDatDonDar]

Note he tones down the butt slap - uses the back of the hand, like modern airport security.

[@lrb3989]

Loved it when he said have you ever had this tooth before

[@d.s.parentsr6502]

15:56 - The assistant breaking character had me rolling!

[@jimih7811]

both women actually do , the patient hide herlelf with the handkerchief...

[@stemtostern7611]

Thanks for pointing that out.. I have now watched it 5 times now and see even W.C. gave a Big Grin. Priceless. The Bonk coconut sound set it off IMHO. Elise Cavanna is the patient. BTW I play a lot of Golf around 40 plus years worth, I've seen all kinds of swings and what I saw WC Fields swing was as natural as any I have ever seen.

[@blainenodes8182]

From 11:22 on Ms Cannova just exudes the grace of a dancer ,artist, because she was both,and then some❗❗her art was early influential...that 6 ' tall frame, beautiful soul/ face left an impression 👀❤️

[@JohnReitz-ps2ct]

She was a lovely free-spirit in real life. The exaggerated make-up and expressions hide her unconventional beauty.

[@threepot]

The ducks laughing at his golf shots!! 😂

[@phaedrabacker2004]

W.C. a true gem. Thanks.

[@heru-deshet359]

The actress that played the dental patient had a pair of the most beautiful long legs I had ever seen.

[@Dayvit78]

You probably saw her at the races

[@sbcondon]

The music cracks me up. Its so in sync I can almost feeel the pain!

[@feralbluee]

it seems the scene where W. C. is “pulling” the lady’s tooth was cut by the censors - much too sexy for them! so glad you’ve uploaded this sketch!!!!!! :) 😸🐈🐾

[@farmalmta]

That was no lady! That was Elise Cavanna.

[@steveweiss6442]

Love the dental assistant. She is adorable!

[@malcolmmarshall5946]

If I heard the dentist say "Hand me that circular buzzsaw," I'd be done outta there!

[@BenMettin-i3g]

The man was a straight out comedy genius, and the women who played along.

[@Nomadmandolin]

Never mind where i told you to stand. Stand where I tell ya...

[@waynemcdonald4448]

loved these old movies as a kid & even more now. My Grandma was the same age as Elise Cavanna.. One thing I always thought would be great is if Elise starred in a movie with ZaSu Pitts they could play sisters.

[@BigyetiTechnologies]

I remember watching this when I was about 10. Got told off for talking like him at school the next day.

[@daviddecarlo968]

One of the greatest film comedians ever.

[@markoglesby4778]

Last time I saw this was when I was about 8 and I spent the next day at school talking like him.

[@MA-gm8xj]

Same. I was about six. Saw this on one of my perants VHS tapes

[@jakestilson1947]

The legend is that this was not his natural voice but an imitation of the man who ran off with his wife and he assumed it to annoy her.

[@susansauls8902]

“Didn’t start smoking till I was 9” One of my favorite W C Fields’ lines. From The Bank Dick, one of his best films.

[@chrisbradshaw159]

Absolutely bloody brilliant!!!

[@davekanak]

I had my volume turned off, and forget this was a talkie, and still laughed my ass off. :)

[@susansauls8902]

True comedy, a lost art.

[@Ra_Mystery]

My Boss and I are at Work watching This and Crying! 😂😂😂!

[@digitalboomer]

He dead-lifted that 50 lb pound block of ice off of the floor! He was in pretty good shape at some point in his career.

[@censusgary]

Fields was a juggler in his youth, and even later in his life, he could do some impressive acrobatics.

[@Smokey298]

It might have weighed closer to 80. Im an ice fisherman

[@twalsh4440]

SO FUNNY BRINGS HUGE LAUGHTER THANKS W.C.

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

This is one of the funniest movies ever.

[@jeremiahabbott5277]

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. “That female wrestler gone?”

[@kulavoorjagadish1277]

W.C. fields,# funny hilarious, I like it very much. Rare episodes.

[@garyschultz7768]

judging by the mountains in the background of the golf course they're playing at Griffith Park Calif...people have been playing there since 1914....the beginnings of aviation also started close by in Glendale...the Grand Central Airport opened in 1923 & it was instrumental in the development of aviation in the (then) United States..

[@nickieblock898]

I just love Bud Jamison, he's absolutely brilliant!

[@pgh45rpms]

That chunk of plaster that hits W.C. Fields at 15:57 wasn't supposed to be. Note how the patient hides the urge to laugh by covering her face with the scarf. W.C. cracks a grin but remains in character. Even the dental assistant turns her head away to save the film shot.

[@AhJodie]

I am glad you pointed it out, I had to go back and check, it was even funnier then, thank you!

[@premanadi]

The assistant does break up a bit, but I think the scarf is because some plaster dust went in the patient's mouth and she's choking a bit, not laughing. Note that there is an added sound effect when the plaster hits his head, so it is quite clearly intentional.

[@HooDatDonDar]

“Ah, the hell with her!” No extra charge for the bedside manner.

[@mikeo9219]

One of my favorites is My little Chickadee ...with him and Mae West 😂

[@Collectologist]

15:58 - The nurse tries to hide a slight snicker when the plaster hits Fields in the head.

[@guest491]

I saw that too

[@ettawing5955]

@@guest491 me also

[@1videoluvr]

All 3 of them were trying to hold it back. Hilarious.

[@darknessanddistance4469]

X I think she saw it falling before it hit his head and didn't get the warning in time

[@farmalmta]

That nurse was a great character actress.

[@raymondparsley7442]

A great 86 year look back when golf clubs had hickory shafts, but the rules remain much the same as today. WC Fields was great... As the saying goes: "The more things change, the more they stay the same".

[@farmalmta]

One of WC Field's skits had him set his golf bag down on an active termite mound, with a pest control guy worked into the routine. Naturally, the termites were quick acting and hilarity ensued as WC's clubs disintegrated in his hands and shots went wild.

[@suzieqwonder3089]

WHAT A LEGEND!

[@bottlecap57]

That was hilarious, I haven't watched a lot of Fields but that was great. Laughed all the way through.

[@kenmanx1298]

Some of the best, of the very best!

[@godfreecharlie]

I challenge any Hollywood so called screenwriter to come up with a script that is one half the blue ribbon, superb, clever writing of a W.C. Fields flick. No writer now has the talent to match the "Reality" of these treasures. Whenever someone thinks of a person living forever they're usually thinking of entertainers like W.C. Fields. Wish he was still alive!!!! See what I'm saying?

[@brucegilbert7243]

Isn't there a line in this comedy when the female paitient says, " I'd rather have a baby than have a tooth pulled!" And W.C. says, " Well make up your mind. I'll have to adjust the chair."

[@SM-nj4ot]

I'm all set for an extraction in 2 weeks and take no reassurance from this. Great humour.

[@moeharvard]

This is the greatest dental comedy ever Only the Three Stooges come close

[@nathandodge665]

This is one of his best

[@greglapointe1311]

That tooth pulling sequence was a hoot! I was laughing my ass off as she had her legs wrapped around him and he's carrying her around

[@edwinfjennings2756]

Greg LaPointe v

[@rahkinrah1963]

"Get your foot out of my pocket".

[@blainenodes8182]

OMG...what a hoot❗❗❗looks👀body language thee funniest

[@blainenodes8182]

At 15:57...no dialogue and hilarious 👋

[@davidintel]

W.C. Fields 1932: Oh, to hell with her! Priceless!!

[@keefriftaird8580]

Pretty damn good golf swing too!

[@TRRyan]

Fields often foursomed with "Babe Hardy," Babe Ruth and Bing Crosby. They were all good, with Bing the best.

[@HooDatDonDar]

Thot that was Hardy. He used to win all the local championships.

[@fredrickvoncold]

back in the days of the ice man, my mother remembers that .so lucky to have that on film .

[@audreypettorelli4416]

Hi I only just came across this a few days ago. Wow I loved it and think I have watched it loads of time already on repeat. Is there any other films like this he's in? I ordered the dvd short film collection but would love to know of other films he's been in? He is a genius so so funny

[@dariosmagata8481]

He only did five short sound films, sadly - but if you check out his full length movies, they're very similar. It's A Gift is a great one.

[@audreypettorelli4416]

I ordered the box collection. He is a natural comedian hilarious. I only discovered him a few months ago.

[@HT-ym6re]

Unforgettable...It never bores.

[@workingmansdead44-ug8hl]

that bit has always been a favorite of mine thanks

[@Edelweiss-hh6tk]

The nurse rolling her eyes to say "shut up!"

[@edgardopineda3317]

I have seen this suene, of pulling her tooth, several times, it is amazing!

[@jerrycoleman5448]

You can see a bit of unscripted business start at 15:54 when the plaster hits Fields in the head. The assistant starts to break up at that and when Elise get a mouth full of plaster dust. Cool that they left all that in the final print.

[@AtlantaTerry]

LOL!

[@darknessanddistance4469]

Mack Sennett was a practical producer.

[@premanadi]

I don't think it's unscripted at all. There is an added sound effect for it!

[@oddysey2007]

I love this goofy and hilarious film short W C Fields was the greatest for his time.It would be neat if someone done a reenactment of the entire short.It would be in color and have a clear video image but this one for as old as it is did turn out really good quality.I know it was digitally cleared up.I really do like this it is the best! LOL

[@bigdave1579]

R.C. Actually had a nice form and swing!