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      The Dentist

      Released Dec 9, 1932 22m Comedy List
      100% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 70% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A dentist (W.C. Fields) becomes furious when his daughter falls for the iceman (Arnold Gray). Read More Read Less

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews hardcore misanthropic humor. Rated: B Mar 23, 2006 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Aug 9, 2005 Full Review Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan Ribald, hilarious Fields short Rated: 5/5 Oct 19, 2004 Full Review Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Rated: 4/5 Oct 8, 2004 Full Review Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Hysterical W.C. Fields short with an outrageous, long censored scene restored. Rated: 5/5 Jun 15, 2003 Full Review Tony Toscano Talking Pictures (U.S.) Rated: 4/5 Mar 13, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Donald J I believe this is the reason why people are so afraid to go to the dentist. The idea of the scary dentist (mirrored by Steve Martin in Frank Oz's "Little Shop of Horrors") has been around for quite some time, and Fields makes the best out of a ridiculous situation. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/04/23 Full Review william d Delightfully silly. Good thing it was made in 1932; many of the jokes would not have made the cut once the Production Code kicked in two years later. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member funny funny short from the master of comedy Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Not that good script as his other movies , but it had some good laughs . Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member What people fail to point out in reviews is that W.C. Fields was really daring with the sexual undertones in some of his gags. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member W.C. Fields' super racy short about a dentist who manhandles his female patients while keeping his young daughter repressed in an upstairs bedroom. I was awed again and again by the sheer audacity of many of these jokes, and I can only extend admiration to Fields and his crew for getting them past the censors- or at least some of them. While there isn't quite the laugh-out-loud delivery structure present in his peers' films (Chaplin and the Marx Bros.), there is an asinine lunacy about the picture that makes it a very worthwhile watch. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A dentist (W.C. Fields) becomes furious when his daughter falls for the iceman (Arnold Gray).
      Director
      Leslie Pearce
      Distributor
      Paramount Pictures
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Dec 9, 1932, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Feb 11, 2017
      Runtime
      22m
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