The Golf Specialist (1930)

Directed by

Monte Brice

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

20 min

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 1930 short comedy featuring W. C. Fields as a golf instructor. He demonstrates his skills indoors on a fake grass carpet with a painted backdrop.

lightheartedwhimsicalslapstickplayfulfast-pacedstagedperiodcomedic

What happens

The Golf Specialist is a 1930 pre-Code comedy short subject released by RKO Radio Pictures, and starring W. C. Fields. It was his first talkie. The film was produced at the Ideal studio in Hudson Heights, New Jersey. Many pioneer film studios in America were based in New Jersey, and a few of these production facilities were still being used in 1930. 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 had first performed his golf routine on film in his silent feature So's Your Old Man (1926) and reprised it in that film's sound remake, You're Telling Me! (1934). In The Golf Specialist the sketch is staged entirely indoors, using an imitation-grass carpet and a "lakeside" backdrop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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