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6.7
/10
52 Ratings

YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN

Directed by George Marshall, Edward F. Cline
United States, 1939
Comedy, Romance
  • 7979 minutes

Synopsis

Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus and is perpetually in debt and avoiding his bills. When his daughter, Victoria, visits, she falls in love with ventriloquist “The Great Edgar”, but her sense of duty to her father presses her to accept an engagement to stuffy rich boy Roger Bel-Goodie.

Synopsis

Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus and is perpetually in debt and avoiding his bills. When his daughter, Victoria, visits, she falls in love with ventriloquist “The Great Edgar”, but her sense of duty to her father presses her to accept an engagement to stuffy rich boy Roger Bel-Goodie.