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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

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Original title

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Year

1941

Running time

71 min.

Country

United States

Director

Edward F. Cline

Screenwriter

John T. Neville, Prescott Chaplin. Story: W.C. Fields

Cast

Music

Charles Previn, Frank Skinner

Cinematography

Charles Van Enger (B&W)

Producer

Universal Pictures

Genre

Comedy. Musical

Synopsis

Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. He becomes his niece's guardian when her mother is killed in a trapeze fall during the making of a circus movie. He and his niece, who he finds at a shooting gallery, fly to Mexico to sell wooden nutmegs in a Russian colony. Trying to catch his bottle as it falls from the plane, he lands on a mountain peak where lives the man- eating Mrs. Hemogloben. When he gets to the Russian colony he finds Leon Errol (father of the insulting boys and owner of the shooting gallery) already selling wooden nutmegs. He decides to woo the wealthy Mrs. Hemogloben but when he gets there Errol has preceded him. The Mexican adventure is the story that Esoteric Studios would not buy.

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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

1941

Edward F. Cline

6.4

(66)