You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Director: Edward F. Cline, George Marshall
Cast: Constance Moore, Edgar Bergen, Edward Brophy, James Bush, John Arledge, Mary Forbes, Thurston Hall, W.C. Fields

Synopsis:

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.