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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward F. Cline released in USA on 17 february 1939 with W. C. Fields
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
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Add to a movie listYou Can't Cheat an Honest Man is a 1939 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields. Fields also wrote the story on which the film is based under the name Charles Bogle.
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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. Whipsnade's co-ed daughter pays a visit and falls in love with Bergen, but after she sees the financial mess that her father is in, she decides to marry a tiresome young millionaire. Whipsnade initially approves of the marriage, and just to be sure that the penniless Bergen doesn't win out (and make McCarthy an in-law), he sets the pair adrift in a hot-air balloon. However, Whipsnade creates a scene at the engagement party, and father and daughter escape together in a chariot, with Bergen and McCarthy in pursuit.Actors
W. C. Fields
(Larson E. Whipsnade)
Edgar Bergen
(The Great Edgar)
Constance Moore
(Victoria Whipsnade)
Mary Forbes
(Mrs. Bel-Goodie)
Thurston Hall
(Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie)
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