The Fatal Glass of Beer 1

[windstorm1000]

"not at all, Mr. Snavely, notat all"

[PCgamerman176]

"So as a moral to young people, who go down to the city, dont go around breaking people's tamborines"

So funny!

[dfuge10224]

We use to have 16mm films in the student union at college every Wed evening in the 60's.

We'd bring the little "airplane bottles" of bourbon and scotch in with us and watch the Marx Brothers, WC Fields, and many more.

If you're drinking and watching Fields, there's a whole bunch of sarcasm you don't pick up if you're sober.

He was one of a kind.

[BeantownJim]

It was his barber shaking the cabin hahahaha

[Aalborg42]

won't consider me rude if I play with me mittens on?

He staggered through the doors with delerium tremens (after 1 beer)

best song ever

[JFBridge]

That's Rychard 'Dick' Cramer alongside W.C.,who menaced Laurel and Hardy on a few memorablr occasions.

[pamraymiles]

LOL I love that kick she learned before she had been saved! Hilarious!

[horseoutbarn]

love WC Fields comedy

horseoutbarn

[elmorehand]

Wow, I cannot watch this without laughing till I cry.

[jackinla8]

BRILLIANT!!!

[BeantownJim]

im in stitches

[archiebunkerville]

this is his best i think

[jamesdutoit]

There will never be anyone better.

[MTCatman]

Brilliant! Love it, thanks!

[monkeylad44]

Not a fit night out...for maaan or beast..."WHUMPF"

It's...priceless.

[carambolage67]

I am one of maybe a few german W.C.Fields fans.

I watched Fatal Glass of Beer so many times. It is in my opinion the best movie ever been made.

[jackinla8]

"It's A Gift" is hilarious too! :-)

[Lampshade51]

Absurd and hilarious.

Fields is clearly making fun of melodramas, and his blatant (and very funny) disregard for playing along with the special effects in the movie is hysterical. When he spits out some of the blowing "snow" and says "tastes just like cornflakes" (which is exactly what they used in those days), when he makes fun of the phony looking back projection, or whenever he opens the door ("aint a fit night out....") and a stagehand throws a handful of snow in his face, I crack up.

[shanghaibenny2]

"...wickedly he broke her tambourine." I wonder what that means? ;->

[cqsallie]

Nothing like WC Fields! The Fatal Glass of Beer!

And it ain't a fit night for man, nor beast!

I wish I could watch the whole thing - it wasn't very long, but the poor son staggers home to the loving arms of his virtuous parents, forgiven for his atrocities...

I love WC Fields!!!!

[bchfront]

Dear martin, Your message rece'd. Sorry, but I am at a loss --are you referring to Mr. Astaire? Fred was, I regret to report, no "friend" of mine -- I met him once, very briefly, in Beverly Hills, and it was "traumatic" experience! Only because, I guess like so many others, all I could see was he and Ginger in front of me! My grandfather was very friendly with Fred, going way back to when he rehearsed he and Adele in their vaudeville act, around 1907! Whew! All best. R.J.

[Fledrmaus]

I've sure learned my lesson - I never go around breaking people's tambourines anymore.

[brcbrtn]

"D'ja get yer man?"

"No, not yet, but I got my woman."

"Well, that's sometin'." LOL Love this.

[bchfront]

My father said he would pass Fields' house on DeMille Dr., while walking his dog, and Bill would be sitting on his front-porch with a pitcher of martinis and a shot-gun. "Why the shotgun?" I asked. "Because", Dad explained, "the kids in the neighborhood loved driving past and shouting curses and epithets at him! "Get out of here or I'll blow your heads off!" he'd threaten, Carlotta Monti later told me, all true EXCEPT it wasn't a pitcher -- just one glass at a time -- always full! R.J.

[martinimerlin]

Is this R.J.- friend of Fred A.?

[williamclaudefields]

This is the best film ever made.

[ReneeNme]

One of my favorites of all time bill.

[batguano]

Fields and the Marx Brothers should be at the center of any study of American comedy.

What I love about this short is the fact that they aren't really trying too hard to be funny, and that makes it funnier.

[fromthesidelines]

This was produced by Mack Sennett for Paramount in 1933 (one of his "All-Star Comedies", and one of the few two-reelers Fields wrote and starred in for the Sennett studio), and reissued by UM&M TV in 1956...

[drovdrov]

The best way I can describe W.C. Fields is hes was man that came before his time, (thankfully). The ability to transcend eras....

[keliata]

Ain't a fit night out for man nor beast! How can you not love that? ROFL. A genius! Isn't this the clip where he says that?

[skrichctpa]

Ridiculous and understated at the same time. Genius.

[cqsallie]

My eldest son sent me a MCFields colletion a few years ago. Unfortunately, it was on VCR and I only have a DVD player.

This is one of the most hilarious short-films ever. WC Fields, a notorious alcholic loved nothing more than to poke fun of Prohibitionists.

Genius? Of course! You can't be a genius unless you're drunk or high. That's the way it is....

Sallie

[Baggs4299]

"My eldest son sent me a MC Fields colletion a few years ago."

Do you also listen to WC Hammer's music?

[itchyscratcher]

ha!

[1633ruthlor]

how could you not laugh,at this piece of comedy genius.

[1633ruthlor]

Awesome!!!

[texascarl]

My uncle Ichabod said, speaking of the city, "It ain't no place for women, gal. But pretty men go thar".

[creamofcardstv]

Your video clip is great and I've rated it as awesome. I've done another clip on some old cigarette cards of 1930's actors and actresses: WC Fields, Florence Desmond, Gracie Fields, Boris Karloff from The Mummy, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier and many more.

[northwest500]

great to see my hero on youtube.

[crosbying]

the moral of this story is awesome

[philmfan]

This short is one of the single greatest documents of comedy from the entire 20th century. It's multi-layered, absurd, and pre-figures many developments in the field. If anyone doesn't see this, just watch it (the entire short) a few times.

[windstorm1000]

@philmfan excellent analysis!! It certainly is.

[monkeybike]

brilliant!

[gnxnational]

aint a fit night out for man or beast! classic