"You're Telling Me" is one of the better films from W.C Fields. The film includes the golf playing sketch, which was performed in the short "The Golf Specialist." The above film shows the sketch to better advantage as it is more smoothly done. Fields is an inventor of no particular merit. His crackpot schemes have never beared fruition. After Fields accidentally ruins a budding romance between his daughter and a rich socalite (played by the original Flash Gordon Larry Crabbe), Fields runs away from town after feeling a sense of loss and shame. The film then allows for some moments of drama: onboard a train, he befriends a visiting female member of the aristocracy. The latter character offers Fields some support after he takes her into his confidence. I have rarely seen the comedian look so crestfallen, even slightly vulnerable. It proves that W.C Fields could act, as well as be quite funny. It is a touching scene and allows the comedy to recharge its batteries. There is a very funny scene where Fields attempts to keep up with a car tyre that seems to have a life of its own! As the tyre is rolling down the street, Fields gives chase. I was laughing pretty hard! For a man who had a slight problem with alcohol, he could move well. I would rate "You're Telling Me" in the same league as "The Bank Dick," "Never Give a Sucker An Even Break" and "The Old Fashioned Way."
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