The Pharmacist
(1933)
20 mins | Comedy | 21 April 1933
Cast:
W. C. Fields, Babe Kane , Elise Cavanna [ More ]Director:
Arthur RipleyProducer:
Mack SennettProduction Company:
Sennett Pictures Corp.The screenplay was adapted from the sketch, "The Druggist," written and performed by W. C. Fields for the 1925 edition of Ziegfeld Follies. Its upcoming screen counterpart was announced in the 10 February 1933 Film Daily by its working title, The Drug Store. Rychard Cramer was listed as a cast member. Days later, the 21 February 1933 Variety noted that the title had temporarily reverted to The Druggist. Various sources state that principal photography had been completed earlier that month at Mack Sennett Studios in Studio City, CA.
The picture was released as The Pharmacist on 21 April 1933, preceded by openings on 7 April 1933 at the Met Theatre in Boston, MA, and on 11 April 1933 at the Paramount Theatre in Salt Lake City, UT. Other openings followed during the week of 16 April 1933 at the State Theatre in Chattanooga, TN, and during the week of 22 April 1933 at the Rialto Theatre in New York City. The April 1933 National Board of Review Magazine rated the film as suitable for family audiences.
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The screenplay was adapted from the sketch, "The Druggist," written and performed by W. C. Fields for the 1925 edition of Ziegfeld Follies. Its upcoming screen counterpart was announced in the 10 February 1933 Film Daily by its working title, The Drug Store. Rychard Cramer was listed as a cast member. Days later, the 21 February 1933 Variety noted that the title had temporarily reverted to The Druggist. Various sources state that principal photography had been completed earlier that month at Mack Sennett Studios in Studio City, CA.
The picture was released as The Pharmacist on 21 April 1933, preceded by openings on 7 April 1933 at the Met Theatre in Boston, MA, and on 11 April 1933 at the Paramount Theatre in Salt Lake City, UT. Other openings followed during the week of 16 April 1933 at the State Theatre in Chattanooga, TN, and during the week of 22 April 1933 at the Rialto Theatre in New York City. The April 1933 National Board of Review Magazine rated the film as suitable for family audiences.
The Drug Store
The Druggist
Pharmacist Mr. Dilweg returns to his drugstore after spending the morning at the firehouse playing cards. As he eats dinner with his family, Dilweg is annoyed by the tantrums of his younger daughter, Ooleota, and the ongoing telephone conversation between his older daughter, Priscilla, and her boyfriend, Cuthbert Smith. The meal is interrupted by a man who wants to buy a single postage stamp, a caller ordering a five-cent box of cough drops to be delivered, an old woman in need of a restroom, a federal agent looking to buy illicit liquor, a woman who has fainted, and a gunman who takes refuge in the store during a shoot-out with police. The volley of bullets ends when a customer using the pay phone uses the receiver to knock the gunman unconscious. Dilweg presents the hero to his family, only to discover that he is Cuthbert ...
Pharmacist Mr. Dilweg returns to his drugstore after spending the morning at the firehouse playing cards. As he eats dinner with his family, Dilweg is annoyed by the tantrums of his younger daughter, Ooleota, and the ongoing telephone conversation between his older daughter, Priscilla, and her boyfriend, Cuthbert Smith. The meal is interrupted by a man who wants to buy a single postage stamp, a caller ordering a five-cent box of cough drops to be delivered, an old woman in need of a restroom, a federal agent looking to buy illicit liquor, a woman who has fainted, and a gunman who takes refuge in the store during a shoot-out with police. The volley of bullets ends when a customer using the pay phone uses the receiver to knock the gunman unconscious. Dilweg presents the hero to his family, only to discover that he is Cuthbert Smith.
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