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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring W. C. Fields, Gloria Jean, and Leon Errol. Fields also wrote the original story, under the pseudonym Otis Criblecoblis.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: Directed by Edward F. Cline. With W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart. A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Never give a sucker an even break'? Fields never did… This line is generally associated with W.C.Fields, who made a film of this name in 1943 and said it as an ad-lib in a stage production of the musical Poppy in 1923.
Mar 27, 2013 · To give someone an even break is, centrally, to divide something fairly with them, and metaphorically, to make a fair deal with them. A sucker is someone who is easily fooled. This is colloquial American English from the nineteenth century, and nobody’s sure anymore why it means that.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Filmmaker Bill Fields (W.C. Fields) and his lovely niece, Gloria (Gloria Jean), are determined to sell a script to a producer (Franklin Pangborn). As they read...
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) is a tour de force of W.C. Fields' off-beat humor, double-takes, broad comedy and priceless lines and sketches. The screenplay by John T. Noville and Prescott Chaplin was based upon Fields' own original material (under nom de plume Otis Criblecoblis).
