Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Flickchart Comment #16: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) over Eat My Dust! (1976)


Sure, I love sloppily made, mind-numbing, redneck car chase films like anyone -- when I am in the right mood -- but the prize for me in this match-up goes to W.C. Fields playing himself in his sweetly vicious and often outright surreal Hollywood satire. Besides, it has a crazy car chase of its own that has always served as one of my favorites.

Fields: "I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for."

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