The Golf Specialist (1930) on Netflix
At a Florida hotel, Deep Sea McGurk leaves a note demanding the forty dollars J. Effingham Bellweather owes him. Bellweather tears it up and offers the detective's wife a golf lesson.
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Plot summary
J. Effingham Bellweather owes Deep Sea McGurk forty dollars, and McGurk's angry note waits for him at the desk of a Florida hotel. Bellweather comes in, and the desk clerk, Walter, hands him the note; he tears it up. The wife of the house detective flirts endlessly. When the detective spots the wife approaching a man, he rolls that man out the door. Bellweather meets a bratty child and the detective before he offers the wife a lesson in golf.
Cast
- John Dunsmuiras Deep Sea McGurk - House Detective(uncredited)
- Johnny Kaneas Walter - The Desk Clerk(uncredited)
- William Blackas Guest in Lobby with Letter(uncredited)
- Allan Bennettas Guest in Lobby(uncredited)
- Naomi Caseyas Little Girl(uncredited)
- Jack Irvinas Deep Sea McGurk(uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Golf Specialist (1930)
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- In 1929 W. C. Fields tried to claim the film rights to his old stage sketch "The Family Ford" and found it had already been filmed without permission; to avoid a repeat, he teamed with producer Lou Brock to film another sketch, "An Episode on the Links," as a talking picture.
- Although the short turned out well, it won W. C. Fields no further film work; he left New York for Hollywood, where his insistence on his high Broadway salary priced him out of jobs until four Mack Sennett comedies led to feature films at Paramount and then Universal.
- The golf sketch in The Golf Specialist was staged entirely indoors, using an imitation-grass carpet and a "lakeside" backdrop.
- The golf sketch ran only 10 to 12 minutes on stage with four performers, so extra scenes were added on a hotel-lobby set to stretch the film to two reels, about 20 minutes.
- Harriet MacGibbon, then a 24-year-old stage actress, made her first film appearance in The Golf Specialist, three decades before she became Mrs. Drysdale on The Beverly Hillbillies.
