It's the Old Army Game, with W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks, screens in London

It's the Old Army Game, with W.C. Fields and Louise Brooks, will be shown at the wonderful Kennington Bioscope in London on Sunday, November 23. More information about this event can be found HERE.

Here is what the Kennington Bioscope says about the film: "Though posterity remembers him as a talking comedian, the great W.C. Fields – enemy of small dogs and children everywhere – made some wonderful silent comedies. This 1926 feature follows the trials and tribulations of small-town druggist Elmer Prettywillie (Fields) and boasts some terrific comic set pieces, from his encounters with difficult customers to a nightmare picnic. It later provided the blueprint for his 1934 classic It’s A Gift, and also features an unlikely co-star: silent icon Louise Brooks! Piano accompaniment by Colin Sell." 

More information about It's the Old Army Game can be found on the Louise Brooks Society filmography page devoted to the film.  

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