W.C. Fields in "It's A Gift" - Blind Man with Cane

[PREnetwork]

i do this in one of my videos

[67nairb]

Excuse, I meant politically incorrect.

[67nairb]

Very funny scene, but very politically correct. What year was this movie made?

[67nairb]

@67nairb Excuse me, I meant "politically incorrect."

[harpo103]

Someone made Fields a bet that he couldn't make a blind man funny.

[karellison]

"Here's your chewing gum ... 5 cents please"

"I'm not going to lug that with me ... send it"

Hahah.

[telekingkong]

"It's all right, it's alright; just a little galssware!!"

Mr. Fields is one of my all time favorites. This is one of his best, and his barely whispered asides can be hilarious. One of the very best of that golden era.

Thank you for posting it @cragarrows.

[smallglories]

"Who is that man!?"

"The house detective at the Grand Hotel"

A great line.

[vigneshrk]

wow im glad i was born after "being funny" was invented...just kidding. i just really dont find it funny but i like how other people do. i guess this is all you could get away with in those days. btw, mr. muckle was really bad at using his blind walking stick - or whatever thats called. i dont think blind-deaf people could get away with that today...

[thenostalgiakid1]

I just finished watching this from the arts centre, everybody laughed their ass off!

[rolandangler]

It is not often that a blind man is allowed to be the star of a comedy sequence (one of the funniest on screen) but it took a misanthrope such as W.C Fields to make it.

[aphotog24]

Growing up this scene was talked about as if it were a part of our own family folklore...no one seemed to remember the bland man's name which only added to the silliness when someone would impersonate Field's...thanks for posting.

[123liamp]

Kumquats?

[TheJackiemickie]

This whole movie was up has it been taken down.

[IAintOverYet]

WC Fields movies were usually played late at night on some obscure TV channel, probably UHF (I bet most don't even know what that is), before that days of cable TV. I watched while in bed, and had to contain my laughter so as not to wake up the wife and kids. That was impossible. The whole bed shook and so did the rest of the house, and I woke up everyone anyway. I've been watching a lot of his movie scenes on YouTube this weekend and my gut hurts from all the laughing. What a genius!

[DrSwirl]

i demand my kumquats !!!

[8thPrincessofHeart1]

Hey! its Uncle Ned from Bright Eyes!! I love that guy!

[poopisnotafood]

w.c. fields is a comic genius. i have no idea why i continue to burst into laughter at least 10 times during this scene even though i have seen "it's a gift" about 100 times and i know what's going to happen. and i like being born in 1981 and finding w.c. field's humor incredibly relevant.

[protyn]

Yeah, it's a classic. One of his many.

[simonmoves]

one of funniest movies scenes-this is the best of wc fields--you got that door closed again,huh......

[steveinchelsea]

I know it's very politically incorrrect but it's still a classic !

[watchagod]

i would be pissed if i'm the shop owner. but well, it's a comedy...

i think it's not funny cuz i feel sorry for that shop owner... for me "funny" should make me laugh, or at least smile...

[demoman87]

2 people didn't get their kumquats

[ostrich67]

KUMQUATS!!!

[Bixforever]

Best scene in the movie, I have ever seen. You need no words to understand.

[patchcords]

WHERES MY GUM !!!!! LOL

[simonmoves]

@patchcords i'm not going to lug that with me--send it

[classicphile]

Love those 1930s fire engines :-)

[NaturallIee]

Kuming kuming!!!

[killerskillet]

of course the punchline to this entire scene is that W.C. Fields doesn't even know what a kumquat is.

[Femigaytheist]

I find it interesting, and I was unaware that in that time it was acceptable for a man to refer to another man by terms of endearment, "honey," "darling," and "dear".

[cragarrows]

@Femigaytheist

It's a generational thing, I believe, and a bit condescending. I think it'd be 'okay' at that time to talk like that to a child or an elderly person. I was over 20 years old when my father once called me "honey," my girlfriend thought it odd.

[BiGWHiTe941]

@Femigaytheist

it's not like how you'd call your wife honey , it's a bit more like how when talking to a horse

[Papergei1]

That was really great. Good that they used the old style Edison Screw Light bulbs filled with inert gas...............as they sound louder when hitting the deck..........

[MySerpentine]

@Papergei1 Well, it was made 60+ years ago

[Snotra]

I feel like this every Tuesday morning.....

[Snotra]

Absolute depravity!

[iaincollin]

Sit down Mr Muckle

[jvolstad]

I feel like eating a kumquat.

[billysexcrime79]

Mr.Muckles...honey....dear....­.......

[motleyfitness]

Brilliant Fields!

[emilblaster]

greatest scene ever

[maydom04]

@HELLO2YOU3:IT'S DEFINITELY YOU YOU YOU !!!!!!!!. This Film is Hialrious !!!

[ThiefInLaw]

Not bad, but I find it more annoying than funny.

[MikeM1301]

Coming ... Coming ....

[unzarjones]

3:18 Fields absentmindedly calls his clerk through Muckle's ear horn! LOL

[leafyutube]

Notice how inept his employee is? Why doesn't he just fire him? Haha!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Because good help was hard to find even in those days.

[maydom04]

because Fields has a soft spot in his heart.

[chisaoboy]

Damn... he doesn't want to LUG home ONE friggin' piece of gum. Imagine a customer like that. You'd freakin' go nuts.

[chisaoboy]

@HELLO2YOU3: It's just you. This is a riot. Comic genius.

[BongHitFever]

I love 1930's comedy...it's the best!

[HELLO2YOU3]

is it just me. or is this just not verry funny,stupid yes but funny no

[Gregg30]

@HELLO2YOU3 It is just you.

[feck2112]

It is very funny

[karellison]

This entire movie was interesting and funny, unlike his later film "Never Give a Sucker An Even Break" (avoid that one).

[paperbase]

Fantastic!

[120hazz]

fed humor mega sort

[fortleefilm]

Uncle Claude in this film brings American comedy to its zenith!

[jeffatuofl]

I never noticed that the gum gets left on the counter and only the paper gets taken to Mr. Muckle.

[NYVoice]

KUMQUATS! Coming, coming...

[Bigstooler0]

"Here's your pipe..." "What was that?" "Nothing.. Just a little glassware"

[IStillSay]

My favorite of all of his movies, although he is so great in all of them.

[Jaydublus]

SIT DOWN HONEY...SIT DOWN MR. MUCKLE! Love Field's use of the word "Honey!"

[curlytoes79]

Funny that Mr. Muckle has someone accompanying him up to the door and then just disappears and lets him busts through the glass!

[hugatag]

I never noticed that. What a great observation. Sure could have used that guy when he crossed the street at the end! HA!

[diddeliduddi]

Well, obviously it is merely a man helping him across the road and then goes about his own business.. as anyone would have done. One wouldn't help the man across town.

[MrTommy001]

And not a single obscenity in all this gut busting humor.

[migrantbison]

Not to ruin your fun, but Fields, on a daily basis drank excessively, and gleefully made it a humorous affair. Along with many other abuses such as tobacco addiction and child abuse. But my point is not that this man is immoral, because he isn't. He's human, and recognizes and exploits his own faults. Beyond that, he makes things apparent that serious matters such as child abuse are something only a foolish drunk stub would act upon. But really what i'm getting at is FUCK OFF.

[MrTommy001]

@migrantbison  ... And your point is ?

[migrantbison]

@MrTommy001 I have no idea.  I was very intoxicated when I wrote this. Wish i could delete it lol.

[MrTommy001]

@migrantbison Not to worry. I loved Fields when I was a kid, and now that I'm NOT a kid (64) I still love him. I know he abused booze, smoked, and hated kids, but that doesn't take away from his comic genius. In our PC world of today, many would poo poo his genius, but I HATE PC and love everything he ever did. This was a man before his time.

[SoulPower2008]

@MrTommy001 except for kumquats

[orientalprincess95]

CUMQUATS! (spelling?)

[andrewsandersonphoto]

Love the way he gets out of that bin.

[JTPolo101]

One of the greatest sketchs in all of comedy.

PLEEEEEEEEEESE sit down Mr. Muckle

*LOL*

[SnoreBear44]

The signature scene in a hilarious movie --doesn't get much better than this

[Bigstooler0]

"Here`s your chewing gum!"

"I'm not gonna lug that with me....send it."

[hugatag]

MR Muckle is the house detective at the grand hotel. Thing about WC is he is so natural in his movies along with the actors that perform with him. He was also good friends with Shemp who from the 3 stooges, drinking buddies

[MQRED011]

"Just sit right there.... PLEASE sit right there!" Hillarious

[martinimerlin]

In the Gene Wilder film, "Lady In Red", Charles Grodin does an homage to this blind man scene at a bar - hilarious!

[NGS712]

Is it just me or does Mr. Muckle have a strange attraction to glass? ;)

[hugatag]

LMAO! classic

[noNWO4me]

simply, the FUNNIEST movie, EVER!!!

[maydom04]

I agree, it's hard for me to think of a funnier one !

[martinimerlin]

Got that door closed again, eh?

[Donat1953]

Insurpassable! Just brilliant!

[boxingglovelove]

Five pounds of cumquats is a shitload of cumquats.

[TheMusicStalker]

Open the DOOOOOORRRR!!!!!!!!!!

Tha best above all!!

[buffalee]

the one and onlYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY