Norman Z. McLeod

The shenanigans start right away as the brothers stow away on a luxury liner. It's their first film that wasn't based on a play, as they endeavored to find new material.

As president of Huxley College, the fun loving Professor Wagstaff attempts to help his son finally graduate after 12 years by arranging to 'buy' professional football players for an upcoming big game against rival Darwin University. The plan takes an unexpected twist, however, when a bootlegger and a dogcatcher are mistaken for the athletes and accidentally hired instead.

A drifter befriends an orphaned girl and her grandfather in Middletown, New Jersey. Features music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston including "Pennis from heaven", "So do I", "Skeleton in the closet", and "Let's call a heart a heart."

When Milford sells a large life insurance policy to 'T.J. James, ' a young man who says he's well-known, the broker thinks he has made a killing. But his elation is short-lived when he realizes that his new client is none other than Jesse James - who is already worth more dead than alive. Suddenly Milford finds himself saddled with a new commission: to go west, join the James gang and do everything possible to keep the deadliest outlaw in history...

[Topper]: A sophisticated and playful couple become ghosts and haunt the life of a stuffy banker. [Topper returns]: Cosmo Topper helps a shapely ghost track down her killer.

"Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters. "Animal crackers": Captain...

Cocoanuts: A Florida land auction is disrupted by a jewelry theft and shady visitors. Animal crackers: A weekend party is not complete until Captain Spaulding, the noted African explorer, arrives for the celebration. Monkey business: An ocean voyage is complicated by stowaways and by gangsters' nefarious dealings. Horse feathers: Huxley College gains two football players just in time for the big game with their rival school, but are they enough...

From his early days on stage in vaudeville and Broadway through his live appearance on radio, W.C. Fields created an iconic persona that has never been matched. The comic genius of Fields is best captured forever in his body of films that highlight his notoriously sarcastic quick wit and slapstick routines. In these ten films, see W.C. Fields at his best.