
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
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.
Release Date: 1939-02-17
Comedy
★★★★★★★★★★ (20 votes)
Casts

W.C. Fields
as Larson E. Whipsnade

Edgar Bergen
as The Great Edgar / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
as Cheerful

Constance Moore
as Victoria Whipsnade

John Arledge
as Phineas Whipsnade

James Bush
as Roger Bel-Goodie

Thurston Hall
as Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie

Mary Forbes
as Mrs. Bel-Goodie

Edward Brophy
as Corbett

Arthur Hohl
as Burr