Wichita's Louise Brooks in "It's the Old Army Game" (1926)

Starring Wichita's, Louise Brooks

Druggist Elmer Prettywillie (W.C. Fields) is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell, only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then, garbage collectors waken him. Next, it's firemen on a false alarm. And then, a real fire!

It's the Old Army Game is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks. The "army game" is the shell game, a con-trick which WC Fields observes being played. "It's the old army game" he says, sagely.

The film was directed by A. Edward Sutherland, billed as Eddie Sutherland, and co-stars Sutherland's aunt, the stage actress, Blanche Ring, in one of her few silent film appearances. The film is based on the revue, "The Comic Supplement," by Joseph P. McEvoy and Fields, and included several skits from Fields' stage plays.

The film includes two long sequences later reworked for his later classic It's a Gift (1934), while other gags would turn up later in other films, notably several of his shorts.
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