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The Golf Specialist

1930 · 20 min

A breezy, silly slapstick short that coasts on verbal bluster and physical gags, never hitting the ball but always going for the laugh.

Directed by: Monte Brice
Genres: Comedy
Starring: W.C. Fields, Shirley Grey, John Dunsmuir

Overview: At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.

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Directed by: Monte Brice
Genres: Comedy
Starring: W.C. Fields, Shirley Grey, John Dunsmuir

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Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
lightstrength 3 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: deception
crime
class
gender
Places: workplace
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	9
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	1
Complexity	2
Emotional weight	1

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Monte Brice
Written by: W.C. Fields
Starring: W.C. Fields, Shirley Grey, John Dunsmuir, Allen Wood, Johnny Kane, William Black, Harriet E. MacGibbon
Runtime: 20 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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