So's Your Old Man (1926)

W. C. Fields tries to show up all the snooty members of his town. Hilarity ensues. Directed by Gregory La Cava.

This film, released the same year as "The Old Army Game" finds Fields hitting his stride. He plays an inventor, fond of the drink, who has designed an unbreakable windshield. His poor, put upon wife is reaching the end of her patience in waiting for him, and the final straw seems to be when he intrudes on her entertaining a local upper-class woman. Fields goes to an auto show to demonstrate his new invention, but due to a mishap, ends up throwing bricks through the wrong car, destroying the window.

Morose at his failure, he contemplates suicide on the train ride home, but fails even at this. He befriends a princess on the ride, thinking she's suicidal (and not really believing she's a princess), and spends three days back in town trying to work up the courage to go home to admit his failure.

The princess decides to cheer him up, and surprises him and his wife by calling on them, creating a large scene, and immediately bolstering their prestige in the community. Fields is invited to help open the new golf course, which leads to one of the longest gags in the film (and probably the longest attempted tee off in history).