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An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.
Marjorie Kane
- Mary - Dentist's Daughter
- (as 'Babe' Kane)
Billy Bletcher
- Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient
- (uncredited)
Joe Bordeaux
- Benford's Caddy
- (uncredited)
Harry Bowen
- Joe
- (uncredited)
Bobby Dunn
- Dentist's Caddy
- (uncredited)
George Gray
- Benford's Golf Partner
- (uncredited)
Barney Hellum
- Patient in Waiting Room
- (uncredited)
Thelma Hill
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
- Charley Frobisher
- (uncredited)
Pete Rasch
- Benford's Tough Son
- (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
- Old Lady
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBased on the Broadway stage skit "An Episode at the Dentist" written by W.C. Fields for the "Earl Carroll Vanities" in 1928.
- GoofsThe shadow of the boom falls on the ground behind the Dentist at the golf course.
- Quotes
Benford's Tough Son: So, you're the guy that hit my father on the head.
Dentist: Yes, you want to make anything out of it.
Benford's Tough Son: [socks him in the jaw]
Arthur - The Iceman: [rising to the Dentist's defense] I'd like to see you do that again.
Dentist: Is it necessary for him to do it again?
- Alternate versionsCensored reissue prints have at least three changes:
- 1. The sexually suggestive tooth-pulling scene is removed
- 2. "They can take this golf course and st..." is blanked out
- 3. "Ah, the hell with her!" is covered by an additional patient moan.
- Also, intrusive music and sound effects were added at some point.
- The Criterion laserdisc and DVD contain a version that restores the tooth-pulling scene and the original credits, but have the censored dialog and additional music and sound effects.
- ConnectionsEdited into Down Memory Lane (1949)
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Extracting humor and teeth
The Dentist was the first of four Mack Sennet shorts that W.C. Fields made in between his feature films with Paramount. In this one he extracts a bit of humor.
Actually before he gets to the office Fields gets in a round of golf where he beans a player still on the green ahead of him. Fields was never the most patient or polite of people and he neither asked if he could play through or yelled 'FORE'. Nothing changes I might add for professional people in 80 or so years, still golf before business.
When he gets to the office he has some real tussles with patients. I can see where Bob Hope got some of his ideas for his Painless Potter character from The Paleface. One scene was truly provocative as Fields with back to camera gets between a seated woman patient's legs in his efforts to extract a tooth. Elsie Cavenna the patient had some shapely legs and she did appear in a few more films with Fields.
No way in a few years that one would have gotten past the omnipresent Code. But now we can laugh and enjoy as the rest of Bill Fields's body of work.
Actually before he gets to the office Fields gets in a round of golf where he beans a player still on the green ahead of him. Fields was never the most patient or polite of people and he neither asked if he could play through or yelled 'FORE'. Nothing changes I might add for professional people in 80 or so years, still golf before business.
When he gets to the office he has some real tussles with patients. I can see where Bob Hope got some of his ideas for his Painless Potter character from The Paleface. One scene was truly provocative as Fields with back to camera gets between a seated woman patient's legs in his efforts to extract a tooth. Elsie Cavenna the patient had some shapely legs and she did appear in a few more films with Fields.
No way in a few years that one would have gotten past the omnipresent Code. But now we can laugh and enjoy as the rest of Bill Fields's body of work.
- bkoganbing
- Jun 13, 2011
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Details
- Runtime21 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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