The Golf Specialist
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79% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Short, Comedy, Sport Duration | 6.4/10 IMDb 3/5 Amazon Director Monte Brice Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 22, 1930 (1930-08-22) Genres Short Film, Comedy, Slapstick Similar movies Pacific Rim , Feast , Paperman , The Artist , Hic-cup Pup , Mickey and the Seal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Golf Specialist is a 1930 comedy short subject from RKO Pictures, starring W. C. Fields. It was his first talkie. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there in the early part of the 20th century.
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The film features lines such as "I would never hit a woman, not even my own mother" and "Stand clear and keep your eye on the ball", a line Fields also used in the golf scene in The Dentist (1932). Fields reprised the entire golf scene in You're Telling Me! (1934).
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Synopsis
J. Effingham Bellwether (W. C. Fields) is a guest in a hotel, where he meets the House Detective's wife (Shirley Grey) who likes to flirt with other men. After brief encounters with a little girl (Naomi Casey) and the House Detective (John Dunsmuir), Bellwether offers to teach the Detective's Wife how to play golf.
The two of them and their Caddy (Allen Wood) go out to the golf course, but Bellwether never gets to hit the ball; his lessons are being constantly interrupted by such distractions as the Caddy's squeaking shoes, pieces of paper being blown by the wind into his path, accidentally stepping into a pie that the Caddy had brought, et cetera.
At the end, the police and the House Detective come out to the course to arrest con artist Bellwether for a list of absurd crimes (such as "Eating spaghetti in public" and "Teaching the facts of life to an Indian"); the police put handcuffs on him just as he's showing the Detective's Wife the importance of keeping the wrists close together while gripping the club.
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