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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 17, 1939

Runtime

1h 16m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

68%

Original Title

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Director

George Marshall

Description

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.