Tillie and Gus
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Primary Contributor: W.C. FieldsPrimary Contributor: Alison Skipworth
Primary Contributor: Julie Bishop
Primary Contributor: Edgar Kennedy
DVD: Region Code 0
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 58 minutes
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Movie Reviews of Tillie and Gus
Movie Review: For W.C. Fields Fans
Summary: 4 Stars
I agree with the other reviewers here, this is probably primarily for the true W.C. Fields fan. It has great old character actors Clarence Wilson (the villain) and Edgar Kennedy (the Judge in the opening sketch.)
The story involves Wilson playing a shyster lawyer who cheats Field's niece (Julie Bishop) out of her entire inheritance including the house she grew up in and finally even her ferry boat and franchise. In order to keep the franchise and prove that their steamboat is capable, they are compelled to race Wilson's new boat.
It was the kind of melodrama that worked in an earlier era but by the 1930's had become corny and funny, thus an apt comic vehicle for Fields, the curmudgeon without a peer.
Alison Skipworth and Fields play gamblers masquerading as missionaries. They receive letters about the death of the their brother. Fields sings "Bringing in the Sheep" after a successful poker game to raise funds for the trip. Skipworth tells the Travelers Aid Lady that, while in China, she "filled them with spirits," and "relieved them of their worldly possessions." They had good on screen chemistry in this film as they had in their "Road Hogs" segment in "If I had a Million." The rivalry between the two doesn't reach the comic heights reached in Field's work with his best leading lady, Kathleen Howard, in "It's a Gift."
Field's best sketch in this movie is the paint mixing routine following instructions on the radio. Here he is "helped" by his nemesis, Baby LeRoy who turns the radio dial. (It can't be a Fields film without either Baby LeRoy or Evelyn Del Rio playing children "reeking of lollipops.") This movie is the one where he speaks his most famous line about liking children: "I like them well cooked."
W.C. Fields is one of my favorite comedians.
Summary of Tillie and Gus
Alison Skipworth and W.C. Fields play Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom, a husband-and-wife team of con artists. The larcenous couple is summoned to a small town by their niece (Jacqueline Wells) and her husband (Clifford Jones) when the niece's father dies. Hoping for a sizeable inheritance, Tillie and Gus discover that the legacy consists of one rundown ferry boat.Comedy DVD Video
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