The Golf Specialist

USA 1930
produced by
Lou Brock for RKO
directed by Monte Brice
starring W.C. Fields, Shirley Grey, Al Wood, John Dunsmuir, Johnny Kane, Naomi Casey, Harriet E.MacGibbon, Allan Bennett, William Black
written by W.C. Fields

short
Broadway Headliners

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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J. Effington Bellweather (W.C. Fields) is a man on the run for multiple charges (including eating spaghetti in public and spitting into the gulf stream), but that doesn't keep him from picking up the wife (Shirley Grey) of the hotel detective (John Dunsmuir) of the place he's staying at. Even though hewould have had time to finish the entire course though the police caught up with him though, Bellweather is not able to hit a single ball due among other things to his incompetent caddy (Al Wood), floating wrapping paper, and even a cake - and when he's finally able to take a shot, he is handcuffed by the cops and the understandably angry hotel detective.

Ok short comedy but despite a few good laughs nothing too great, basically because W.C. Fields has not found his beloved cranky onscreen persona yet and his character remains relatively flat amid all the chaos he is creating. The golf routine was later reenacted in Fields' feature You're Telling Me!.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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