Word: cheate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cheat An Honest Man," a flat script gives Charlie McCarthy's petrified personality very little chance to stir the audience from its boredom...
...little Joseph Meister was dragged by his frantic mother through the streets of Paris in search of an unknown scientist who, according to rumors, could prevent rabies. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the afternoon Mme Meister met a young physician in a hospital. "You mean Pasteur," he said. "I'll take you there...
Back to the circus, where he belongs, is W. C. Fields in his latest movie, "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man," now showing at Keith Memorial Theatre. Fields puffs and wheezes his way through a second-rate script that almost submerges the beauties of his alcoholic capers. Luckily Charlie McCarthy, with stooges Mortimer and Bergen in tow, gives the picture a hypodermic of crackling dialogue that saves it from going to sleep on its feet...
...case, Producer Lester Cowan shrewdly devised a new technique. Instead of paying his stars a salary, he persuaded them to work on a profit-sharing basis, had Fields write his own story and let matters take their course. The result was that the shooting of You Can't Cheat an Honest Man-completed for a mere $400,000-amounted practically to a miniature Hollywood revolution...
...Fields. At the latter, Dr. Leo Rosten, making a Carnegie Corporation survey of the cinema industry, paid touching tribute to the guest of honor: "Any man who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad." Not the least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that it is almost as good fun to watch as it must have been to make. Typical shot: Fields threatening to get McCarthy, with whom he continues his radio feud, a pair of beavers...