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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

IMDB:

6.8
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Released

2/17/1939

Duration

1h 16m

Genre

Comedy

Country

United States of America

Cast

W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

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.

Cast

W.C. Fields

Larson E. Whipsnade

W.C. Fields

Edgar Bergen

The Great Edgar / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd

Edgar Bergen

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Cheerful

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Constance Moore

Victoria Whipsnade

Constance Moore

John Arledge

Phineas Whipsnade

John Arledge

James Bush

Roger Bel-Goodie

James Bush

Thurston Hall

Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie

Thurston Hall

Mary Forbes

Mrs. Bel-Goodie

Mary Forbes

Edward Brophy

Corbett

Edward Brophy

Arthur Hohl

Burr

Arthur Hohl

Princess Baba

Princess Baba, The Great Edgar's Assistant

Princess Baba

Charlie McCarthy

Charlie (ventriloquist dummy)

Charlie McCarthy

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