You’re Telling Me! (1935)

You’re Telling Me!
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
1934/USA
Paramount Pictures
First viewing

Sam Bisbee: Stand clear and keep your eye on the ball!

When he is not drinking liquor out of a jug, Samuel Bisbee (W.C. Fields) is an optometrist and inventor who embarrasses his long-suffering wife no end.  His daughter is in love with the son of a society family (Buster Krabbe) but they are having none of Sam.  Sam’s hopes are further dashed when he screws up the sales presentation of his puncture-proof tire.  Luckily, Sam meets a princess who solves all his problems.

The plot, such as it is, only gets in the way of the gags.  Chief among these is a reprise of Fields’s golf routine from his 1930 short “The Golf Specialist”.  Fields is hit and miss with me and, unfortunately, this was a miss.  I smiled a few times but I didn’t laugh.

Clip – the golf routine