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In his second-to-last feature, '''''The Bank Dick''''' (which he wrote under the moniker "Mahatma Kane Jeeves"), Fields as unemployed layabout Egbert Souse -- [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|Soosay, if you don't mind]] -- replaces drunk movie director A. Pismo Clam on a location shoot in his hometown of Lompoc, California before chance lands him in the job of bank detective -- after which the movie becomes a riff on the comic possibilities of his new-found notoriety. The stellar comic supporting cast includes future [[The Three Stooges|Stooge]] Shemp Howard as the bartender at Fields' regular haunt, The Black Pussy, and Preston Sturges regular [[Franklin Pangborn]] as bank examiner J. Pinkerton Snoopington.
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