In Poppy (1936), he tells his daughter "If we should ever separate, my little plum, I want to give you just one bit of fatherly advice: Never give a sucker an even break!" In You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), he tells a customer that his grandfather's last words, "just before they sprung the trap", were "You can't cheat an honest man never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump."įields fought with studio producers, directors, and writers over the content of his films. The title is derived from lines from two earlier films. As he describes the script to a skeptical producer, the often surreal scenes are shown. Fields plays himself, promoting an extravagant screenplay he has written. Fields also wrote the original story, under the pseudonym Otis Criblecoblis. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (known in some international releases as What a Man!) is a 1941 Universal Pictures comedy film starring W.
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