Paramount Pictures
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)
W.C. Fields plays a carnival huckster who looks for any opportunity to swindle some poor sap out of their money. He forges a marriage license and convinces a town full of snooty socialites that his daughter is the rightful heir to a fortune. Although he is eventually exposed, she turns out to be the rightful heir anyway. His daughter, the lovely Rochelle Hudson, falls in love with the mayor's son, and their budding romance takes up too much screen time. However, Fields has a field day destroying the wealthy and their pastimes, including a cricket game gone awry and the performance from an "opera" in which his hat plays a major role.
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