You're Telling Me!

You're Telling Me! (1934)

He's pretty cute playing Cupid to young love!

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.

Date of release
1934-04-06
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 6m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Erle C. Kenton

Casting

Interesting facts

You're Telling Me! is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring W.C. Fields. It is a remake of the 1926 silent film So's Your Old Man, also starring Fields. Both films are adapted from the short story Mr. Bisbee’s Princess by Julian Leonard Street. It was released by Paramount Pictures.

Production

The sequence at the golf course is largely the routine that formed the nucleus of Fields' earlier short film The Golf Specialist. This was filmed at the Lakeside Golf Club in Burbank, California, which was also used in Fields' short The Dentist (1932 film).

The triumph of Fields' character over his circumstances, and the happy ending thanks to a windfall profit, would be repeated later in 1934 in It's a Gift.

The film received only a cursory review in William K. Everson's 1967 book The Art of W.C. Fields as it was unavailable because of ownership issues. The issues were resolved and the film is included in the Universal DVD set W.C. Fields Comedy Collection, Volume Two. Everson mentions that the name of the film's minor character Charlie Bogle was adopted as Fields' writing pseudonym for several of his later films.

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