You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

7.0IMDb Score
Released:1939-02-17
Genre:Comedy
Duration:76 min
Director:Edward F. Cline, George Marshall
Actors:W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Constance Moore, John Arledge
Production:Universal Pictures

Overview:

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.

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