You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
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Features
• Black & White
• Closed-captioned
• NTSC
In Theaters : 18 February, 1939
Video Release : 13 October, 1998 |
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) Customer Reviews
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Barely mediocre Fields comedy
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"You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" was a disappointing effort due to the fact that rather than featuring W.C. Fields director George Marshall chose to allow Edgar Bergen and protege Charlie McCarthy to hog the screen. I was under the impression that ventriloquists were not supposed to move their lips. This was a condition that was lost on Bergen. I'm at a loss as to understand what the captivation was with his tired act.
Fields playing perpetually indebted traveling circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade was given too few opportunities to perform his particular style of hijinks. One notable exception was the scene in the ticket booth where he used his excellent comedic tools.
The widowed Fields' kids Victoria and Phineas played by Constance Moore and John Arledge are being supported by him as they attend a prestigious college. Arledge aware of Fields' monetary plight is encouraging his sister to marry rich guy Roger Bel-Goodie played by James Bush. Such a union would provide a business opportunity for Arledge in the Bel-Goodie family banking business and a solution to Fields' insolvency. The only trouble is that Moore doesn't love the rich guy and inexplicably falls in love with Edgar Bergen.
The predictable plot proceeds on to an apparent happily ever after ending that caps an overall unsatisfying film. |
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