The Sheriff Tends Bar

[emjee]

"TOMBOY!"

[KevinByrne2]

One of my favorite scenes -- serving the drunken woman, and then the story about "Chicago Molly". Great ! Thanks.

[glen1ster]

She dips her mitt down into this melange Why, I almost broke my great toe

[zzGRENDELzz]

Get the 17 film universal set from Amazon Uk -cheap! Watched this for the first time last night couldn't wait to share it!

[Yankeegirlll]

This is my FAVORITE scene from this movie. Chicago Molly came back the next week and beat the both of them up. That is too funny!

[amongsttrees]

Anyone know what the girl's name is? I saw this film many many years back, and haven't learned it subsequently. And I have to admit, now that it's mentioned, she does look strikingly like Anne Heche....

[NormaDesmond1000]

I'll say she came back!  She came back and beat the BOTH of us up!"

"Yeah, but she had another woman with her!". LMAO

[Mojave888]

I cautioned her "None of your peccadillos in here".

[aardvaark069]

In a radio exchange between Fields an Don Ameche; Filelds " My uncle on my fathers side died last week" Ameche; "Oh Bill, it must be hard losing a relative." Fields; "It's almost impossible." What a comedian.

[jeb31415]

@aardvaark069

Haha. Excellent. 

[beggin1967]

il be candid with you,i do not know!

[30kitcat]

THIS IS CLASSIC!!

[MotorSickler]

I never have kicked a woman in the midriff.Sounds dangerous.Anybody who was raised by wolves..er sisters..knows better!

[skizziks1952]

"...listen, you pigmy.."

[jeb31415]

``If I was in condition and I had squawk with me then I could lick two of `em" f*ing funny!

[cheezer57]

Man, that lady looks a lot like Ann Heche!

[Manchac7]

What a genius. Fields timing is impeccable.

[docmalthus]

"No, I just can't recall any such incident right now."

Classic hilarity!

[Canam7]

No it's not. She's in this movie, but that wasn't her.

[walmartian]

was that Mae West?

[walmartian]

i love how they let you pour your own shot back then

[aardvaark069]

I love Fields utter lack of sentimentality and Chaplinesque treacle. Also his pacing can only be described as vivacious and snappy. totally satisfying.

[sdimas73]

I have to report this movie to SPCF - " Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Female " !

[SilverLightSpecial]

This scene always cracks me up..."OK...ya big tomboy..."

[logancody07]

I've seen this a hundred times and it's just as fresh and funny as the first time I saw it.

[realitycheck333]

you ever kick a woman in the mid-riff that had a pair of corsets on? ... Well I almost broke my great toe. I never had such a painful experience. ... Yeah well she had another woman with her, an elderly woman with gray hair. -- WC Fields was a true American hero. Team America move over!

[Snotra]

aahhh.... ya big tomboy.

[billybob78704]

why i nearly broke my great toe!

[jamiva4]

I laughed until I cried!!! W.C. was a Grand Master Of Comedy. "your too quit witted for him, your good at raparte" Pure Genius

[loudepalma]

alright ya big tomboy

[daskraut666]

what movie was this from??

[Vikin1979]

I think My Little Chickadee!!!!!

[imallearsru]

Yeah, yeah he was the one who knocked her down but I was the one who started kicking her........ROFL

[WKRPinCINN]

your crazy... i'm wanted for nearly every state in the union...

[tetekofa]

"me and squirt mulligan"

[danoinreno]

I love this !!!

[lukeandlea]

Ahh yes.....The Master ! W.C. never gets old !

[sclogse1]

some of the words you have to translate to continue to make comments sound like words Fields would have made up.

proscissors was todays.

Doesn't the gal look just like that Anne Heche....? And how about that amazing bar?

[garys737]

go learn to cook.................

[leng21]

Just one in a long line of classic scenes from the great W. C. Fields' films. I start laughing just at the sight of him, in anticipation of his unique and brilliant comic antics. Thanks for this hilarious post!

[shanghaibenny2]

Tonsorial parlor? I just go to a hairstylist.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

"I Had to, She Died"

[bchfront]

Just beautiful. It's one of the great-joys for true Fields-fanatics how he always worked a scene like this into every picture -- except possibly, "David Copperfield"! The guy "looking for the funnel" is Jimmy Conlin. His widow, Mrs. Colin, later became the "official greeter/host" at the otherwise all-male Masquers Club. My grandfather would occasionally take me there for lunch. Mrs. Conlin told me once that Jimmy & Bill were boyhood friends from Philadelphia -- probably why he hid the funnel! RJ

[procommenter]

I used to have the book on W.C. Fields written by his grandson. There were many facsimiles of letters from the Great Fields to his wife concerning piddling amounts of money. He was a cheap-skate. Legend has it that he died with a million dollars in banks across the country in accounts under aliases.

[12121149]

They dont make em, like they used to.Genius!!!

[crowley7483]

"you and who else?" "Me and Squak Mulligan" Always loved that one

[williamclaudefields]

Best line ever??? One of 'em...

[AS1633]

I love "Where's the funnel?"

[gravesrus]

"I starts kicking her in the midriff. Did you ever kick a woman in the midriff that had a pair of corsets on?"

Best line ever :-)))))))))))

[skizziks1952]

By far the best scene he ever did

[tulipmitchell]

Comic genius at work.