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Whipsnade : [sings in shower] I'd rather have two girls / At twenty-one each / Than one girl at forty-two! Whipsnade : As my dear old grandfather Litvak said (just before they swung the trap), he said "You can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump." Whipsnade : This way, ladies and gentlemen, this way.
Cheapskate circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade (W.C. Fields) has a habit of skipping out on his bills, with the result that he has an entire posse of sheriffs and bill collectors following him from town to town. When his beautiful daughter, Victoria (Constance Moore), visits her father's circus, she falls in love with ventriloquist "The Great Edgar" (Edgar Bergen), but her sense of duty to her ...
Young man, if there is such a thing as a tartuffle, you are just that thing. Not enough W.C. Fields, too much Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. There's something weird about putting a ventriloquist in a movie, it would be easy to cheat and just dub the voice, yet at the same time the camera is so close that you can easily see his lips move.
12 apr 2022 · It’s carny nonsense all the way, dated race humor, brilliant insult jokes and all: “You can’t cheat an honest man; never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump.” Michael Schlesinger’s audio commentary wises up us chumps; CineSavant reviewer Charlie Largent is back in action, and cheats nobody! On Blu-ray from KL Studio ...
The owner of a debt-ridden circus contends with pursuant bill collectors and sheriffs and his beloved daughter's relationships with one of his performers and a stuffy but wealthy young man.
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9/10. "Somebody Took The Cork Out Of My Lunch". bkoganbing 23 July 2008. You Can't Cheat An Honest Man finds widower W.C. Fields running a second rate circus and trying to stay one step ahead of the law as he's creditors just about every place he goes. His children, John Arledge and Constance Moore attend a really posh Ivy League type school ...
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man. The daughter of a misanthropic circus owner falls in love with a ventriloquist, the bane of her father's existence.
