Filthy McNasty

[Larry Kart]

Watching W.C. Fields' "The Bank Dick" last night (and sadly being reminded of how lame it is compared to, say, Fields' brilliant "It's a Gift"), I noticed that one of the two would-be bank robbers is named Filthy McNasty.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Wow!!!!!

Bloomin' 'eck, Tucker!

Horace would have been of the right age group to have got Fields in the immediacy of his popularity, I guess. Illumines the important point that great artists are, usually though not invariably, as human as the rest of us.

MG

[Larry Kart]

Other characters from “The Bank Dick” (Fields wrote the script under the pseudonym "Mahatma Kane Jeeves") are:

J. Pinkerton Snoopington (the bank examiner)

J. Frothingham Waterbury (the bank director)

A. Pismo Clam (the drunken film director)

Then of course there’s Fields’ character, Egbert Souse, pronounced “Soo-SAY" [“accent grave on the ‘e’”]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I remember the name J Pinkerton Snoopington. Must have seen that film back in the days when I watched TV. But I don't remember Filthy McNasty.

MG