You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Feb 17, 1939

1h 16m

★ 6.8

AT LAST YOU CAN SEE THESE FAMOUS FEUDSTERS CLASH ON THE SCREEN!

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man Trailers

Cast

Larson E. Whipsnade

W.C. Fields

The Great Edgar / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd

Edgar Bergen

Cheerful

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Victoria Whipsnade

Constance Moore

Phineas Whipsnade

John Arledge

Roger Bel-Goodie

James Bush

Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie

Thurston Hall

Mrs. Bel-Goodie

Mary Forbes

Corbett

Edward Brophy

Burr

Arthur Hohl

Princess Baba, The Great Edgar's Assistant

Princess Baba

Charlie (ventriloquist dummy)

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