“Never Give a Sucker an Even Break” quotes
(1941)Plot – Fields has wrote a screenplay and proposes it to the Esoteric Studios. On the way to the studios, he's insulted by some children, he's beaten for having watched a woman and he's molested by a maid. Then he goes to pick her niece up at a shooting range and together they leave for Mexico to conclude a deal with some Russians, but the product Fields and his niece want to sell them falls from the plane. To retrieve it, the two have to deal with Hemogloben, an anthropophagous, and when they finally reach Mexico, Fields and his niece learn Leon Errol is already there. He's the owner of the shooting range and the father of the children who have insulted Fields. As if it wasn't enough, the Esoteric Studios refuse his screenplay.
All actors – W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown, Margaret Dumont, Susan Miller, Franklin Pangborn, Mona Barrie, Charles Lang, Anne Nagel, Nell O'Day
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Men... they're all alike. They'll deceive you as your father did me. He kissed a chorus girl and when I found out he said "Oh, I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing".
“No extra charge for the cold shower I hope.”
“- Gloria: Why didn't you ever marry?
- The Great Man: I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.”“- Mrs. Hemogloben: You're so full of romance!
- The Great Man: Every night, every night.”
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