Great scene: the climactic fight between Batman and the Joker.BackgroundThe Bank Dick(1940) is an all-time classic comedy starring the great W.C.Fields.Directed by Edward F.Cline, the film is only a little over an hour long.It is one of his very best and funniest films (tied with Paramount""sIt""s A Gift (1934)), his next-to-last major film role (he last appeared in Cline""sNever Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)), and his first solo starring role in a Universal Pictures film.[Note: Hepburn""s suggested itle for the play wasThe Answer to This Malden""s Prayer.]After several commercial failures and labeled "box office poison" in 1938 byPhotoplay Magazine, Hepburn struck out on her own by bringing the property to MGM after buying he film rights to the play." Later, Fiona confessed that she had to set things right, and proposed leaving to find Shrek and then return to the swamp where they belonged together.The commission is "getting ready to hold public hearings on waterfront crime and underworld infiltration of longshore unions.As tears come to her eyes, a policeman appears in the scene and stands and looks at her.When she tightly grabs the railing and contemplates suicide by jumping over, the policeman raps the iron railing with his nightstick and shocks her back into reality.