You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

1939

Action / Comedy / Family / Music

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 74% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1961 2K

pre-code elephant circus sideshow

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Plot summary

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.

Director

George Marshall Photo
George Marshall

Top cast

W.C. Fields Photo
W.C. Fields as Larson E. Whipsnade
Otto Hoffman Photo
Otto Hoffman as Mayor
Mary Forbes Photo
Mary Forbes as Mrs. Bel-Goodie
Helen Dickson Photo
Helen Dickson as Wedding Guest
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725.77 MB
990*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 18 min
Seeds 1
1.32 GB
1484*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 18 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by classicsoncall 7 / 10

"Well some of my best friends are snakes."

Reviewed by Hitchcoc 8 / 10

Fields at the Circus

For some reason, I've never cared much for Edgar Bergen. It wasn't the fact that he wasn't a very good ventriloquist. I think it was a kind of smugness in his personality. Still, as he plays associate comedian to W. C. Fields, his banter with Charlie McCarthy pretty much matches Fields' shtick. This involves a crummy circus with Fields as the proprietor, one step ahead of the creditors and another ahead of the law. Fields sometimes does the clueless thing, but he is usually in control, and he does have a kind of code. This isn't one of my favorites but just try to keep up with the one liners.
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