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

In recognition of a Jon Massey's reportedly bravuva performance as an old man with a cane in Covington Latin's production of "The Beauty Part," I offer one of the great "cane" scenes from the Golden Age of Movies. The Blind Man was played by Charles Sellon.

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  Comedy

[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]

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.

[demoman87]

2 people didn't get their kumquats

[MrCrispian]

the bumbling alcoholic who bluffs ,boasts and bullies his way through a surreal universe of rich widows,dishonest men,imbeciles and annoying children

[ozzie321]

SIT DOWN MR MUCKLE,

[Ken Tee]

I'm still laughing...

[Diane3952]

One of the funniest pictures EVER!!! WC Fields was a master.

[Samuel Callaghan]

CUIUUMQUATZZ!!!

[Donald Morrissey]

Incomparable......

[Funk5333]

Yes, I don't find myself laughing out loud, but perhaps that's because I have seen it before. However, I think David Letterman must have learned a lot from Fields -- being a curmudgeon; setting up very obvious gags. Even though you can see the blind man knocking out the window and the light bulbs and boxes, it's funny when he does it.

[hebneh]

I'm doubtful that kumquats would have even been in stock in W. C. Fields' store. They're certainly not a normal type of fruit to carry. All that yelling on the part of the customer was probably for naught.

[hebneh]

W. C. Fields calling Mr. Muckle "honey" is for only comic effect - it's not that men did that at that time in normal conversation. It's because he's pleading for the blind man not to break anything more.

LIght bulbs shouldn't have been piled up like that anyway. Any shopper could've knocked them all off their display table, blind or not! But obviously this store is pretty messed up anyway, with a useless employee as well as a non-functioning overhead basked delivery device.