In You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man, W.C. Fields plays Larson E. Whipsnade, operator of a shady carnival who’s always struggling to avoid the law and his creditors. In his inimitable comic style, Fields attempts to avoid shutdown while looking after daughter Constance Moore and feuding with underpaid performer Edgar Bergen and his ventriloquist doll sidekicks Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
Marc Edward Heuck discusses You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man on the New Beverly blog.
