Pool Sharks

Pool Sharks also sometimes known as The Pool Shark is a 1915 silent short film. The film is notable for being the film acting and writing debut of W. C. Fields, and also features an early stopmotion animation scene, during a game of pool.

Fields helped make this film in New York City, taking time off from the Ziegfeld Follies, as publicity for the films pointed out. Vaudeville was Fields primary vocation, and it would be nine years before he made his next known film, the 1924 film Janice MeredithFields wore his obviously fake moustache in this film, as he did in all of his silent films. His character and mannerisms bear some resemblance to Charlie Chaplins, although the persona Fields later developed in his sound comedies is foreshadowed during the picnic scene, when Fields character dumps a small child out of a chair so that he can steal it to get closer to the woman he is chasing. ........

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