A lot of people mention his "non-cut," where he just restores the deck to its original position, but I just noticed the "riffle shuffle" at 00:17 where the two halves of the deck are totally separated, so the order never actually changed.
Chico Marx did that whole little routine in Animal Crackers, 5 years earlier. Just kind of funny as Fields famously threatened to sue other vaudeville acts who took things from him.
W.C. Fields was one of those rare comedians that played the crooked guy. But he was still so lovable that you were rooting for the swindler! More or less I find him on a level with Chico Marx and his film persona of the con-artist. He was hustling people but you couldn't help but love him.
Chico hustling Groucho at the race track for all those horse betting books always cracks me up. A fond memory for me was my step dad and I would always watch WC Fields movies when they showed them on late night WGN TV out of chicago in my early youth in the 60/70's in N. Illinois. I'll have to call him this week and tell him about this video. Thanks for uploading.
💣🔫🎬☎Thid is one funny chap.Pure comic incentive bliss. The one and only W C FIELDS A great comic genius one of a kind. Also one of my favourite ever film comedy stars of the silver screen .Just one of the greatest comedian to ever hit the silver screen has a style all his own.Very creative and unique never to be forgotten never get tired of seeing his films the centuries greatest comic star. Oh yes there were many comic stars you have Laural And Hardy a perfect double comedy act The marx brothers Buster keaton .I prefere w c fields to charlie chaplin or the marx brothers .
Classic! The two guys in the top hats in the game later as they got older were very recognizable character actors in the westerns in the 1950's! And that was a young Bing Crosby at 3:13!
How many Aces in the poker game... HAHA HAHA I counted 15 aces... LOOOOOOL WC couldn't get rid of his Aces... RFLOOOOOL One of the funniest comedy moments I ever seen
Fields never said it. It was said by a newspaper columnist who was introducing him at a party held at the Variety Arts Center in his honor. So the line was said about W.C., not by him
Field’s had to fight critics during his time. Most critics didn’t see his comedic genius and bragged on Chaplin. The same goes for Buster Keaton. He too never got the rewards for his talent.
@@catsoandahalf The best of all time 'team' , if you like comedic SW's.... Bud Spencer, Terrance Hill. I think my favorite was called 'Nobody' , but they were all good.
The guy with the eyepatch had a "Mississippi Flush', the only poker hand guaranteed to beat EVERY other hand on the table. It's any 5 cards and a small pistol.
Wow that made my eyes tear and had me in stitches , as i love poker in my young days, and i like him much better than those Marx bros, i thought it was Bing Crosby, and thank you so much and that was so long ago 4 cigars for a nickel
This was what was called comedy. It wasn't based on insulting anyone else's religion or politics. It was based on being funny. Creating an outrageous character and playing the character to the hilt. The character might be a little tramp (Chaplin), an outrageous con man (Fields), a group of zanies( the Marx Brothers), a vain cowardly blowhard (Bob Hope), or a sex obsessed nerd(Woody Allen). The comic pointed to his own faults which actually everyone shares. In laughing at him we were also learning not to take ourselves so seriously.
@John....the under talented violinist, perpetual 39 year old, the cheapest man in show business, old blue eyes himself....Mr Benny...(your money or your life..I'm thinking it over!) GOAT
@@Carandini It's a matter of taste, but I'm old enough to remember the original Allen, "Take the Money and Run". "Bananas",, "Sleeper", up to "Annie Hall". He got stranger after that.
While Fields always, it seemed, had a drink on hand (famously with his 'pineapple juice' on film sets), you almost never hear about him being drunk and unprofessional. Contrast that with, say, Broderick Crawford or Lon Chaney Jr.
Now that's a real poker face,, He's got the guts a river boat gambler for sure. El Capitain was a bit hesitant to reveal his hand, so he resorted to his twin pack of heaters in stead, those cards were marked. He was planning on purchasing a new boat, to be named Ace in the Hole, with the scratch he could fleece from these fellow card playing enthusiasts. But alas, sometimes, even the best laid gambling plans run awry of their intended quest for fortune. Perhaps next game better luck.
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Pure wonderfulness I like how he put the same stack of cards back in the same spot after the cut.
😂
I love his reaction every time he has 5 aces. LOL Singular actor. RIP
An unappreciated comedic genius. He made it look easy.
How can someone who's appeared on a US postage stamp be considered unappreciated?
Absolutely !!
@@darknessanddistance4469 Yes, he was well appreciated and did just fine.
What do you mean “unappreciated?”
The way he flinches when he sees that fifth ace--hilarious.
I CRIED. That was the laugh I needed. Much love from C.J Johnson of Jacksonville Fla, stay safe good people, we're in this together.
@@natebo7490im in Savannah lol what a hilarious scene
😂
Indubitably ☺️
I sort of adopted that Fields Flinch since I was in high school in the 1960s and first became a fan of WCF. Hilarity at its finest!
This never gets old. Shalom
shalom shalom.
....I bid 3 "Shalom"s, an ace and a queen. @@njuham
mas shalom??!!
I was not expecting Bing Crosby strolling in to save the day.
I thought that was Crosby, but wasn't sure.
The rest of this clip was a White Christmas (In Dixie).
One of the greats of comedy. Wish I had a deck of cards like his. But I think even with five aces Mr. Fields wins.
Does five aces beat a Smith & Wesson?
@@ShermanbayIf the cards are bulletproof. 😝
Well my 5 aces are suited. So I win
Maybe my favorite Field's bit. His second shaken reaction gets me every time.
WC was the man ! "Go away boy, you bother me".
It was well known in those days why that was acceptable,,,Back then almost all kids had runny noses...
He never said, " go away kid, you bother me." Not in any film, not an any radio show.
A lot of people mention his "non-cut," where he just restores the deck to its original position, but I just noticed the "riffle shuffle" at 00:17 where the two halves of the deck are totally separated, so the order never actually changed.
Ha - nice catch - I'd missed that!!
Chico Marx did that whole little routine in Animal Crackers, 5 years earlier. Just kind of funny as Fields famously threatened to sue other vaudeville acts who took things from him.
Ringo later used that in 'A Hard Days Night'.
Love the Cigar doused by the sipping his drink bit
Pretty classic seeing a young Bing Crosby in a WC Fields movie.
I wondered if that was Bing. I did a bit of a double take there.
It was "Hope" that I saw Bing in this movie!
BaySideTV That’s incredible, if she was willing to talk I can’t imagine the inside stories you heard.
The movie poster makes it look like WC Fields in a Bing Crosby movie.
Crosby's the co-star Whitfield in this movie with songs by Rodgers & Hart
One of my all-time poker games, Fields is Great!!!!
W.C. Fields was one of those rare comedians that played the crooked guy. But he was still so lovable that you were rooting for the swindler! More or less I find him on a level with Chico Marx and his film persona of the con-artist. He was hustling people but you couldn't help but love him.
Nicholas Van Blarcum I completely agree nick. Very well said
Nic. Excellent assessment of a lovable rogue.
Nicholas Van Blarcum 🍓
You can't forget Mae West!!!
Chico hustling Groucho at the race track for all those horse betting books always cracks me up. A fond memory for me was my step dad and I would always watch WC Fields movies when they showed them on late night WGN TV out of chicago in my early youth in the 60/70's in N. Illinois. I'll have to call him this week and tell him about this video. Thanks for uploading.
Fields was an absolute absurdist comic genius. Maybe the greatest of all of them.
They say he was the best card man and juggler of Vaudeville and his time.
@@moondawg3693 ni
"MAYBE"?!?
You jest...
Absurdist...that's the word !
The funniest line in this scene is "There's only four aces in the deck, and the man that holds the first four wins"
I loved the card cut! Hilarious. And the smoking gun trick.
Apparently, this must be where my brother learned to deal cards...
Brilliant. Beyond funny. Would recommend his “The Old Fashioned Way” for countless gags at this level. Or actually most of his films
Takes an ace up the sleeve to a whole new level 🙂
My Favorite! W. C.
One of my favorite wc scenes....classic
Love that smoking gun gag!
lol...
Yeah, me too!
I love the way he’s humming / singing “ Swanee River”, hysterically funny . His comedy is slightly “ off - beat “ which makes it even better !
I cackled hard at "They were only playing with those knives, I thought they were fighting."
Right! That shit was priceless...He was straight trying to play it off to cheat when they turned their heads.
The only man who lived in Beverly Hills and had his swimming pool in the front yard.
A neighbor's son wandered inside and died in that pool. I don't remember who it was.
Son of actor Anthony Quinn
quinn's son drowned in a small pond that was part of the landscaping with flowers around it etc not a swinming pool.
I've been to the house on DeMille Drive, and it never had a swimming pool. Carlotta's reference must have been to a previous residence.
Fields actually never owned a house. Always rented.
A great scene! Classic WC!
5 aces win in my deck, as long as I can deal!
Now if someone would post the whole film.
Love watching this great man.
The greatest comedian ever.
Only read fantastic quotes by W.C. Fields before. This was the first time Ive actually seen him, and it was F***ing BRILLIANT!
Yes he is fliping BRILLIANT you are right
that was Bing Crosby.
Ba- Ba- Ba- Bing Crozby ?
I lost track, but i think that was a total of 15 Aces in just that one round of cards. 😂😂😂
Just what we want to see in WSOP.
Just to live up the game a little.
I'm sure it went unnoticed 😆
That's a lot of aces.
and they were only through half the deck. lol
My all time favorite comedian
I'm your 1000th subscriber.
Well well.
I've got to remember the old "drinking glass on the deck" trick.
“Any man that hates dogs and children can’t be all bad…” the immortal W.C. Fields.
The World is poorer for the passing of the Late, Great WC Fields
Only playing with those knives!
Great perhaps the greatest American humorist and world class juggler
💣🔫🎬☎Thid is one funny chap.Pure comic incentive bliss. The one and only W C FIELDS A great comic genius one of a kind. Also one of my favourite ever film comedy stars of the silver screen .Just one of the greatest comedian to ever hit the silver screen has a style all his own.Very creative and unique never to be forgotten never get tired of seeing his films the centuries greatest comic star. Oh yes there were many comic stars you have Laural And Hardy a perfect double comedy act The marx brothers Buster keaton .I prefere w c fields to charlie chaplin or the marx brothers .
One more out burst like that, and I'll have this poker playing ensemble cleared of the premises,
post haste!
It was good to see Bing Crosby again. He was my Hubby's favorite.
Look how young Bing Crosby was.
Classic! The two guys in the top hats in the game later as they got older were very recognizable character actors in the westerns in the 1950's! And that was a young Bing Crosby at 3:13!
When he gets louder as his hand gets better is gold
What a character! He was the best.
This is a work of genius.
That must be the earliest Bing Crosby scene 🥃
Omg this had me crying.
WC an underrated talent
The foundation in vaudeville is very apparent. Priceless.
The best comedian in the film industry! End of story.
WC fields, real card shark and pool hustler. 👍
No deck of cards has ever been allowed to have blank back covers, like these do. The idea was to not allow for drawing suites and numbers on them.
How many Aces in the poker game... HAHA HAHA
I counted 15 aces... LOOOOOOL
WC couldn't get rid of his Aces... RFLOOOOOL
One of the funniest comedy moments I ever seen
Any man that hates dogs, and children, can't be all bad! Greatest line ever!
Fields never said it. It was said by a newspaper columnist who was introducing him at a party held at the Variety Arts Center in his honor. So the line was said about W.C., not by him
everybody holding aces and make sure you hold a gun to very good skit
One of my favorite scenes
besides the Restaurant
and the Dental scene.😂
From the great movie
Mississippi!👍🏻
Wow. Back in the day when comedians were actually funny.
Now they mention Donald Trump for a laugh, and just get laughs from Marxists
This guy is just pure genius.when the stars align.
OK boomer.
Thanks
2:27 “What’re you doing up there? Cut it out!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Field’s had to fight critics during his time. Most critics didn’t see his comedic genius and bragged on Chaplin. The same goes for Buster Keaton. He too never got the rewards for his talent.
just beautiful
God, this is hilarious. Even if it makes no sense.
What he did with only 66 yes of life!!!
How many Aces in the deck
I counted 15 Aces
WC trying his best to get rid of his Aces
LOOOOOOL
RFLOOOOOOOL
RFOOOOOOOOOOOL
Better and funnier than the poker game in " They Call Me Trinity. "
Great Spaghetti Western!
@@catsoandahalf The best of all time
'team' , if you like
comedic SW's.... Bud Spencer, Terrance Hill.
I think my favorite was called 'Nobody' , but they
were all good.
Oh you have to check out the WC Fields diner scene with The waitress,
my favorite is hid crooked que sticks
he uses in pool gags
Genius
The guy with the eyepatch had a "Mississippi Flush', the only poker hand guaranteed to beat EVERY other hand on the table.
It's any 5 cards and a small pistol.
So effing genius
The fascinating American motif of the riverboat poker game played by British men is embodied lushly for us by Fields.
What on Earth are you on about?
Guy standing next to him at the end looked like Bing Crosby.
His hands are huge. He could be doing anything with the cards
all of a sudden, there's Bing Crosby
TOMMY GUNN and Joan Bennett on the right at the end
Get rid of the Trump face. I was enjoying this clip and the comments until I had to see that face even here.
Wow that made my eyes tear and had me in stitches , as i love poker in my young days, and i like him much better than those Marx bros, i thought it was Bing Crosby, and thank you so much and that was so long ago 4 cigars for a nickel
Ahhh yessss! Imported Stingaroos!
I laughed so hard and often I near soiled myself.
Several things that happened in that scene were copied in later movies. Fields was the first and the best.
Bing Crosby at the end of
This scene standing next
to W. C.
That was Bing Crosby at the end.
At 3:13, Bing Crosby, the famous American singer, walks in.
This was what was called comedy. It wasn't based on insulting anyone else's religion or politics. It was based on being funny. Creating an outrageous character and playing the character to the hilt. The character might be a little tramp (Chaplin), an outrageous con man (Fields), a group of zanies( the Marx Brothers), a vain cowardly blowhard (Bob Hope), or a sex obsessed nerd(Woody Allen). The comic pointed to his own faults which actually everyone shares. In laughing at him we were also learning not to take ourselves so seriously.
@John....the under talented violinist, perpetual 39 year old, the cheapest man in show business, old blue eyes himself....Mr Benny...(your money or your life..I'm thinking it over!)
GOAT
I'll give you all of 'em except Allen. Always thought he was a bout as funny as paint drying.
@@Carandini It's a matter of taste, but I'm old enough to remember the original Allen, "Take the Money and Run". "Bananas",, "Sleeper", up to "Annie Hall". He got stranger after that.
@@jeffreyjeziorski341 I agree. Don't know how I left him out. I'm old enough to remember his 1/2 hour show in the 50s and 60s
Those double-takes when he gets another ace... and another... ha ha...
Yes, that was "Der Bingle."
W.C. Fields is proof that functional drunks can be very successful in life.
He was the best.
at the end of his life he was drinking a quart of gin every day, just to get himself up to functional
Interesting comment. There is such a thing as highly functioning narcissistic personality disorder, and narcissism and alcoholism are related.
While Fields always, it seemed, had a drink on hand (famously with his 'pineapple juice' on film sets), you almost never hear about him being drunk and unprofessional. Contrast that with, say, Broderick Crawford or Lon Chaney Jr.
Man sitting next to him looks like the great and powerful Wizard of Oz.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...."
No it's not Frank Morgan
Being a drunk is no longer considered funny but W.C. can still make me laugh. (Dean Martin too!) Let's hear it for alcohol abuse! 😆
"Is this a game of chance?"
"Not the way I play it."
Denver Pyle with the eye patch.
Nope. Not according to IMDb.com. The 4 gamblers are listed in the cast. No Denver Pyle. I think it's Stanley Andrews.
great
He still makes me laugh 🤣😂
HFS!!! Turned into a Tarantino flick!
Wow, Crosby!
W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby.
Now that's a real poker face,,
He's got the guts a river boat gambler for sure. El Capitain was a bit hesitant to reveal his hand,
so he resorted to his twin pack of heaters in stead,
those cards were marked.
He was planning on purchasing a new boat, to be named Ace in the Hole, with the scratch he could fleece from these fellow card playing enthusiasts. But alas, sometimes, even the best laid gambling plans run awry of their intended quest for fortune. Perhaps next game better luck.
Five of a kind is the highest ranking Poker Hand. Even beats a straight Flush.
True, and beats everyone else to the morgue. lol
That was Bing Crossley with the chair?
still a more realistic poker scene than casino royale
well now I know who Tony soprano was impersonating when playing monopoly with Carmella, Janice, and Bobby.
Tony give quite a few references to W.C.Fields in the Sopranos series.