Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
1941 Directed by Edward F. Cline
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who 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. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
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Film 71 of The December Project
Some of the jokes in this short W.C. Fields movie are so old they should have been embalmed and locked in a sarcophagus, but, um, I laughed at most of them. There's stuff that's still witty here too, as well as more slapstick than you could shake a stick at, and a manic car chase to finish it all off.
I might have seen one or two of Fields' films a long time ago, but can barely remember them to compare. Here, in his last feature, I am awed that someone can play a drunken semi-confused old man with such authenticity - he's got the red face and the bad teeth as well as…
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"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."
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Film 71 of The December Project
Some of the jokes in this short W.C. Fields movie are so old they should have been embalmed and locked in a sarcophagus, but, um, I laughed at most of them. There's stuff that's still witty here too, as well as more slapstick than you could shake a stick at, and a manic car chase to finish it all off.
I might have seen one or two of Fields' films a long time ago, but can barely remember them to compare. Here, in his last feature, I am awed that someone can play a drunken semi-confused old man with such authenticity - he's got the red face and the bad teeth as well as…
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"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."