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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

1939
Directed byEdward F. Cline
1h 16m

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.

CAST
W.C. FieldsLarson E. WhipsnadeEdgar BergenThe Great Edgar / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer SnerdEddie 'Rochester' Anderson
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GENRES
Comedy
STATUSReleased
PRODUCTION
Universal Pictures
RATING
7.0

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