You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
“AT LAST YOU CAN SEE THESE FAMOUS FEUDSTERS CLASH ON THE SCREEN!”
1939•NR•1h 16m•7.0•Released
Comedy
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
Edward F. Cline
Writer
Everett Freeman, Richard Mack, George Marion Jr.
Languages
English
Studio
Universal Pictures
Cast
W.C. Fields
Larson E. Whipsnade
Edgar Bergen
The Great Edgar / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Cheerful
Constance Moore
Victoria Whipsnade
John Arledge
Phineas Whipsnade
James Bush
Roger Bel-Goodie
Thurston Hall
Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie
Mary Forbes
Mrs. Bel-Goodie
Edward Brophy
Corbett
Arthur Hohl
Burr
Princess Baba
Princess Baba, The Great Edgar's Assistant
Charlie McCarthy
Charlie (ventriloquist dummy)
Mortimer Snerd
Mortimer (ventriloquist dummy)
Blacaman
Blacaman - The Lion Tamer (uncredited)
Ernie Adams
Eddie - Circus Attendant (uncredited)
Recommended
6.4
Animal Crackers
2018
6.4
At the Circus
1939
6.4
The Geisha Boy
1958
6.7
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012
6.8
Hatari!
1962
6
Ziegfeld Follies
1945
6.3
The Ladies Man
1961
6.5
Silent Movie
1976
6.3
Hooper
1978
7
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
2011
6.5
Horton Hears a Who!
2008
7.6
Big Top Scooby-Doo!
2012
6.1
Airborne
1993
6.6
Go West
1940
6.2
The Errand Boy
1961
6.6
Good Neighbor Sam
1964
7.1
Way Out West
1937
7.2
Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness
2022
6.8
The Magician's Elephant
2023
6.9
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964
Similar Movies
The Elephant in the Room
2016
6.9
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964
5.4
Free Jimmy
2006
7
The Girl on the Bridge
1999
Neil Patrick Harris: Circus Awesomeus
2016
Mucha mierda
0
9
Nairu Pidicha Pulivalu
1958
7.3
Zombieland
2009
6.4
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
5
Dixiana
1930
6.7
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
5.8
Roar
1981
7
A Bug's Life
1998
6
Clown Princes
1939
6.4
Hannibal Brooks
1969
5.2
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
6.1
I'll Give a Million
1938
8
The Great BLG Show!
2025
7.9
The Circus
1928
Down Under the Big Top
1996