The Golf Specialist

The Golf Specialist

1930 · 20 min · ★ 5.3 · Comedy

At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.

Directed by Monte Brice · Written by W.C. Fields

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