TILLIE AND GUS
1933
Director: FRANCIS MARTIN
W.C. FIELDS, ALISON SKIPWORTH, BABY LeROY
ALL SEATS $12.00
35MM PRESENTATION
This screening will also include the 1930 W.C. Fields short film "THE GOLF SPECIALIST", presented in a 35mm print from The Library of Congress
Tillie (Alison Skipworth) has just lost her Shanghai bar in a dice game; her husband Gus (Fields) is rotting away in an Alaskan prison for murder. Each gets word of an inheritance awaiting them in Northern California, so they hightail it there and are suddenly mistaken for missionaries returned from Africa. A parody of the enormously popular Tugboat Annie movie and Saturday Evening Post stories, Tillie and Gus makes absolutely no sense... which means absolute no one will be able to stop laughing.
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures
