to avoid any confusion and i have to make clear that this be an update of a previous review i do on this short film . a i grow old and i find it increasingly necessary to add new reflection and insight into old review and so this be in itself a quite normal thing for me to do . what be extraordinary in this case and however and be that this new review be not just an updated version with a few new thought represent it be and in fact and a review in which i have change my mind on the film completely . when i first saw the fatal glass of beer and i be puzzle . i have never see a w. c. field film before and but i be well acquaint with most of the other comic from the golden era and be excite to be introduce to this celebrate talent . i would read several review of this film and take all the praise into consideration and i assume it would serve a a good start . i put the video in the player and be ready for a good time fill with laugh . 18 minute later . eh . i know the film be public domain while could it be that the distributor of my tape have leave out all the gag and punch line on purpose . through research i be convince that i have and indeed and see the entire thing . and the entire thing be and i thought and not much of a thing . if you have see the film and you know what happen . in my previous review and i write represent the part where the parent ask if their boy have any money left could have develop into a situation full of funny mistake and but the film end very abruptly and cynically and and maybe i be too soft hearted and but i can not say i find this end funny . have it be a keystone comedy from 1913 i could have accept it and but field could do good . field widely portray cynical men and but this be too much for me and especially a the parent be so warm hearted at first . like the critic ( and audience ) of the time beer be release and the comfort in familiarity out win any open mindedness in me to accept something different . my statement have it be a keystone comedy . reveals that i have become a prisoner of my own taste while i saw the film in context to comedy i be familiar with and enjoy and interpret it humor within the frame which charlie and buster have already establish in me . i expect the pure gag which other comedian have perform so wonderfully at all time . i do not get em . but that be hardly a coincidence . yes and a few demonstration of field familiar word play may be find here represent he would not take balto and my lead dog and cause i et him . he be mighty good with mustard . however and unlike in it a gift and the bank dick and in which field surprise u with one hilarious punch line after the other and the verbal gag be at best only mildly amusing and serve as little more than filler in order to maintain the interest of the viewer . what be remarkable about this two reeler be perhaps not so much the dialogue in itself but rather the circumstance from which the dialogue and and the situation and evolve while it be not mean to be take seriously . when his son have just arrive home and field remark and while stand besides the boy and cry wife and but i do not suppose we will have him with u long . then he walk out of frame and stand with one foot on a chair and look directly into the camera and and exclaim represent o h once the c ihity ge hets i hinto a bo hoy system . he lo hose his a hankerin fo hor the co hountry . i can honestly tell you that no line have make me laugh so uncontrollably hard in quite a while . yes and the performer reveal his own consciousness of the camera that be film him while that be the whole point and and that be what make it so inconsistently side splitting . when this film be make in 1933 and the film industry be fill with melodrama which inexhaustibly try to maintain it impression of be a mirror of the real world and not reveal the performer consciousness of the fact that they be be film and in an attempt to appear convince to the public . at the same time and however and these same performer in these same melodrama could suddenly be catch talk directly into the camera and spoil any illusion if there ever be one . the fatal glass of beer poke fun at the predictable hollywood production of the time and it do it through such brilliant subtlety that it at time be hard to realize the funny part while but once you get them and you get them well . and it ain not a fit night out and for man or beast . field exclaims while witness the snow storm from his door . each time he exclaim this line and a handful of snow be throw directly into his face . when the storm have stop and field nevertheless exclaim the same sentence . and the handful of snow be throw in his face again and despite the fact that the storm have stop . i almost crack up . now and about the end which i previously find so cynical . well and it be hardly uplifting . but once you understand the irony and surrealism which this movie possess and you realize that it doesn not matter while because and a we have see through the terrible camera work and exaggerated emotional reunion and this be not the real world . it be not even a parody on the real world and a comedy so often claim to be . it be a parody on an unreality alias and melodrama which hopelessly wish to be take a reality and when every jabbernowl know it isn not . disappointed and i try some of field feature and love them immensely . recently ( feb. 08 ) and have long reject to see beer again and i give it another try while and i think you should do so and too and if you happen to share my previous opinion . and if you still do not get it and try another twenty time . it be hilarious and if you let it .