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Good point. But appropriate, because Wolfinger isn't quite as deserving as Brisbee is. His payoff should be shorter! Funnily enough, I looked up my original The Bank Dick review from a few months ago, and I said this at the time: "The most fascinating thing about Fields was how audiences could...

That's one case where it's nice to see him finally in the driver's seat at the end -- literally so.

Funny you should mention It's a Gift and The Bank Dick, because those were the exact two that I ended up contrasting it with. You're absolutely right about the surrounding characters -- Brisbee is good enough at heart that I think it was important to pair him with a wife who wasn't a shrewish...

I finished writing up You're Telling Me this morning, and the thing that really struck me on this viewing is that he isn't the one dishing out the comeuppance -- it's entirely Princess Lescaboura's doing. He tries to help her out when she doesn't really need it, and she's so touched that she...