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You can't cheat an honest man

The daughter of a travelling circus owner attempts to marry into a wealthy family to save her father from bankruptcy.

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  • "Sans peur et sans reproche"

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  • "The daughter of a travelling circus owner attempts to marry into a wealthy family to save her father from bankruptcy."@en
  • "Larson E. Whipsnade, the raconteur and ringmaster of the Circus Giganticus, an outfit which is perpetually in debt, is on the run from the law and on the lam from creditors."@en
  • "W.C. Field's circus is the greatest show on earth--for staying ahead of the sheriff. When his luck runs thin he races the elephants and wagons to the state line."
  • "Whipsnade's circus is the greatest show on earth, for keeping ahead of the sheriff. When luck runs thin, he races elephants and wagons to the state line."@en
  • "Fields as Larson F. Whipsnade, a circus owner fallen on hard times, shares the comic spotlight with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Fields and Charlie continue a feud in the film which had previously kept America amused on radio. The film is really a series of comic set pieces containing some vintage Fields rather than a sustained narrative. Whipsnade is an unpleasant character even by Fields' standards, perhaps reflecting his displeasure with what the studio had done to his story."@en
  • ""Circus owner Larson E. Whipsnade, a shoe-string P.T. Barnum, is pursued by a barrage of sheriffs bearing summonses. One day, Whipsnade's daughter Victoria visits from college and meets ventriloguist Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy. While aloft in a hot air balloon, Vickie and Edgar fall in love, but when Vickie learns of her father's dire financial circumstances, she agrees to marry wealthy socialite Roger Bel-Goodie, although she does not love him. As Vickie drives off to wed Roger, Whipsnade cuts the anchor rope to Edgar and Charlie's balloon, sending them aloft. Desperate, the pair parachute to the ground, land in Vickie's speeding car and are all arrested by the police. As the wedding party awaits the tardy bride, Whipsnade arrives in a horse drawn chariot and proceeds to infuriate the snobbish Bel-Goodies with his boorish behavior. After being released on bail, Vickie rushes to the Bel-Goodie mansion to find her prospective in-laws locked in a battle of insults with her father. When the sheriff appears to serve Whipsnade with yet another summons, Vickie, her brother Phineas and father leap into the chariot and speed away, passing a bicycling Edgar. As Vickie shouts to Edgar that she is free to marry him, he peddles his bicycle in pursuit of the chariot"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en

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  • "Features"@en
  • "comédie (fiction)"
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "Comedies"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en

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  • "You can't cheat an honest man"
  • "You can't cheat an honest man"@en
  • "You can't cheat an honest man (Motion picture : 1939)"@en

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