It's a Gift

1934

Action / Comedy

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 94% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 6003 6K

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Plot summary

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

Director

Norman Z. McLeod Photo
Norman Z. McLeod

Top cast

T. Roy Barnes Photo
T. Roy Barnes as Insurance Salesman
Chill Wills Photo
Chill Wills as Campfire Singer
Jane Withers Photo
Jane Withers as Little Girl Playing Hopscotch
Spencer Charters Photo
Spencer Charters as Gate Guard
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627.73 MB
1280*942
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 8 min
Seeds 1
1.14 GB
1456*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 8 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Cinemayo 7 / 10

It's a Gift (1934) ***

Though I wasn't very impressed with THE BANK DICK, I enjoyed IT'S A GIFT all the way through! This is a tight, regularly amusing comedy where poor old WC Fields must contend with a smart-alecky son and his ever-nagging ball and chain of a wife. Talk about not getting any respect! But he has higher hopes of better things to come, seeking out a dream we all hope will come true for him ... that is if he can manage to avoid one obstacle after another. Choice moments involve Fields trying unsuccessfully to get a good night's sleep amidst all sorts of distractions, and his obnoxious customers driving him crazy in the grocery store where he works.*** out of ****
Reviewed by dbborroughs 7 / 10

Funny film with some great set pieces

I finally cracked the first WC Fields set that Universal put out a few years ago. I got the second set for Christmas and figured I should probably start watching the films.I started with Its A Gift, the story of a put upon grocer in New Jersey who buys an orange farm and heads west. Of course everything goes wrong.One of Field's classics, this is cinema of cruelty as the put upon Fields has to deal with a world that won't leave him in peace. His wife is a nag, his employee at the store is a moron, his customers-including Mr Muckle,the blind man- are self centered vortexes of destruction. Fields is not a bad guy he just has bad luck as everyone wants something from him. I hadn't seen the film in years and I never noticed how cruel it is. I laughed but I also felt really bad for Fields since he clearly deserved better than he got. Personally I'm mixed about its classic status. Yes Fields is wonderful and the set pieces from attempts to shave while his daughter invades the bathroom, to the day in the grocery store, to trying to sleep on his porch to everything that follows is pure comic genius. Its masterfully put together comedy in a way that very few people today understand, no one does set pieces like this any more its all throw away lines and two second gags.On the technical level it is a classic, but at the same time I didn't laugh enough to be a "classic". Perhaps its the fact fields' plight was also very sad at times. I don't know something kept it from crossing into classic status. Certainly this is a four star film, better than most modern comedies and it really should be seen and enjoyed but I don't if its a classic like some of Keaton, Chaplin or the Marx brothers films.But I'm quibbling- no doubt the result of not seeing the film in too long a time. See this film for a really good laugh and to reacquaint yourself with a semi-forgotten master of comedy 7.5 out of 10
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