Get us in your inbox

It's a Gift

  • Film
Advertising

Time Out says

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.
Written by GB

Release Details

  • Duration:73 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Norman McLeod
  • Screenwriter:Jack Cunningham
  • Cast:
    • WC Fields
    • Kathleen Howard
    • Jean Roverol
    • Julian Madison
    • Tom Bupp
    • Baby Le Roy
    • Morgan Wallace
    • Charles Sellon
Advertising
You may also like
You may also like