The Bank Dick (1940 Edward F. Cline)

W.C. Fields as 'Edward Sousé, with a grave accent' (of course it is an acute), Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Franklin Pangborn (as J. Pinkerton Snoopington).

Written by Mahatma Kane Jeeves! Characters also includes A. Pismo Clam!

Had quite severe double-vision by this time and was finding it hard to follow. Not sure we finished it.

I always thought it was about a bank guard who became a film director, but actually it's the other way round, whether or not such fine details really matter.

You'd think this would be an early film from Milton Krasner, better known for colour widescreen films of the fifties, but in fact he'd already shot about 60 by this time!