The Bank Dick is one of the all-time great American comedies. It features one of Fields' best performances. In general, his acting skills have been horribly underrated, but The Bank Dick largely succeeds because of Fields' blustery presence. It's the force of Fields' personality that makes this movie succeed. The Bank Dick doesn't really have a plot.
Fields accomplishes nothing from hard work or perseverance.
Instead he relies upon luck, circumstance, and deception, and while Fields has plenty of bad luck, his good luck tends to multiply like rabbits. In these three shorts, considerable screen time is devoted to showing Fields as he deals with customers. There aren't any plots. The focus is simply upon Fields' attempts to make it through his work day. It finds Fields in a nasty, contrary mood.