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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
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Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman... See full summary » Director:Edward F. Cline |
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The Great Man
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Gloria Jean | ... |
His Niece
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Leon Errol | ... |
His Rival
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Billy Lenhart | ... |
His Heckler
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Kenneth Brown | ... |
His Heckler
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Margaret Dumont | ... |
Mrs. Hemogloben
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Susan Miller | ... |
Ouilotta Hemogloben
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Franklin Pangborn | ... |
The Producer
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Mona Barrie | ... |
The Producer's Wife
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Charles Lang | ... |
The Young Engineer
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Anne Nagel | ... |
Madame Gorgeous
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Nell O'Day | ... |
The Salesgirl
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Irving Bacon | ... |
The Soda Jerk
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Jody Gilbert | ... |
The Waitress
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Minerva Urecal | ... |
The Cleaning Woman
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Storyline
Fields 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. He becomes his niece's guardian when her mother is killed in a trapeze fall during the making of a circus movie. He and his niece, who he finds at a shooting gallery, fly to Mexico to sell wooden nutmegs in a Russian colony. Trying to catch his bottle as it falls from the plane, he lands on a mountain peak where lives the man- eating Mrs. Hemogloben. When he gets to the Russian colony he finds Leon Errol (father of the insulting boys and owner of the shooting gallery) already selling wooden nutmegs. He decides to woo the wealthy Mrs. Hemogloben but when he gets there Errol has preceded him. The Mexican adventure is the story that Esoteric Studios would not buy. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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The Great Man: You didn't, eh?
Huge Turk: I'm troubled with insomnia.
The Great Man: Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it.
Huge Turk: Yeah?
The Great Man: Get plenty of sleep.
Huge Turk: Sleep, unh?
The Great Man: That's what a doctor told me, heh, heh.
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(uncredited)
Arranged from Russian ballad by Harry Horlick, Gregory Stone
Sung by Gloria Jean See more »
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The last movie he starred in, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, included a character Fields always wanted to have in one of his movies: a young woman (in this case his niece, played by Gloria Jean) who loved him unconditionally. See more »Goofs
Continuity: During the car chase, the time on clock in Fields' car varies erratically between scenes. See more »Quotes
Huge Turk: I didn't sleep well last night.The Great Man: You didn't, eh?
Huge Turk: I'm troubled with insomnia.
The Great Man: Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it.
Huge Turk: Yeah?
The Great Man: Get plenty of sleep.
Huge Turk: Sleep, unh?
The Great Man: That's what a doctor told me, heh, heh.
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"OCHI TCHORNYA (DARK EYES)"(uncredited)
Arranged from Russian ballad by Harry Horlick, Gregory Stone
Sung by Gloria Jean See more »
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