Running Wild

1927

Comedy

1
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40%
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 278 278

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Plot summary

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.

Director

Gregory La Cava Photo
Gregory La Cava

Top cast

W.C. Fields Photo
W.C. Fields as Elmer Finch
Frank Evans Photo
Frank Evans as Amos Barker
Barnett Raskin Photo
Barnett Raskin as Junior
Marie Shotwell Photo
Marie Shotwell as Mrs. Elmer Finch
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623.36 MB
1280*930
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 7 min
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1.13 GB
1488*1080
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 7 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 8 / 10

A Matter of Attitude

Elmer Finch (W.C.Fields) is a good man, married for the second time and working for twenty years in a company as accountant. However, he is not respected by his wife and his stepson and even by his dog. In his work, his boss and colleagues spend an abusive treatment, and clients do not respect him either. His life changes when he is accidentally hypnotized and transformed in a lion, changing his attitude."Running Wild" is an excellent comedy, with a great screenplay and performances. The beginning is very dramatic for a comedy, but when Elmer is hypnotized, becomes very funny. The dog is cute and responsible for most of the best sequences, and his mean stepson Junior (Barnett Raskin) is amazingly funny and irritant. The DVD presents in the Extras the "famous sentences" of W.C. Fields, and they are also very ironical and funny. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "O Selvagem" ("The Savage")
Reviewed by psteier 6 / 10

A must see for Fields fans

Starts slowly (though the opening exercise scene is a fun satire of the radio exercise programs of the day), but once Fields gets hypnotized and transformed, it really gets going.Good supporting cast, especially his boy (Junior) and the dog.
Reviewed by mgmax 8 / 10

Younger, more active Fields in fine silent comedy

Report from Cinevent 2007: RUNNING WILD (****) One of the few W.C. Fields silents NOT remade as a Paramount talkie-- though the setup is awfully close to The Man on the Flying Trapeze, with Fields as an office drudge with a messy desk and a wife and pampered stepson who have him beaten down. The turning point of the plot takes it in a more visual direction, though-- his inner lion is released by a hypnotist and he literally runs wild, delivering comeuppance to all his tormentors in a lengthy comedy-action sequence. It had the audience in stitches, and showed that while his silents lack one of the talkies' great assets-- his voice-- they also had sides of his persona lacking in the films made when he was older and less agile.
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