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Episode 66: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Gift Shop in Trump Tower, New York City, September, 2022. Photo credit: Suiren2022/Wikimedia Commons
In the 1939 movie, “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man,” W.C. Fields played a role familiar to Depression-era audiences: the grifter. Rotund, alcoholic—but nevertheless, quick witted—Fields’s character, Larsen E. Whipsnade (Get it? Larceny?) is the owner of a virtually bankrupt circus staying afloat by cheating his employees and the public. In one scene, he shorts a customer on his change, and then mocks the cheated man relentlessly. Whipsnade’s daughter tries to save the circus with her own grift…
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