Never Give a Sucker an Even Break Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Director(s): Edward F. Cline
Production: Universal
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PASSED
Year:
1941
71 min
281 Views


with 48 stages

in this studio?

I'm sorry, Mr. Pangborn,

but they're all busy.

Busy?

I don't like this song.

Neither do I, Gloria.

Come on, we might as well

let him have it.

I hear a song so gay

I hear it all the day

I hear it bring

A message of spring

Birds and flowers

Leafy bowers

Greet the sun on high

Night and day

Breezes play

Gently

Stop!

Quiet!

No, no, no, Gloria Jean.

I want more life.

Gaily through

the swaying trees

Darting sunbeams

light the forest

While the zephyrs

kiss the murmuring leaves

Sweetly fragrant

With the breath of spring

High in the sky above

Birds are winging

Loudly singing

No! No!

How many times

do I have to tell you?

Is a welcome again to spring

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

To spring

Love fills the air

Love's everywhere

Every lover is sighing

Of love undying

No, no, no, Gloria Jean.

Not like that.

Like this.

Lunch! One hour!

Now, Gloria Jean, you've got to

do this number all the way through.

One.

Sing then about

Joyous springtime

Timber!

Stop it!

Stop it!

Hello, Uncle Bill.

Where are you going?

I'm going to the studio

to read my script.

Don't you think

I'd better go in with you?

Oh, no, dear.

I'll be all right.

Don't let them chisel you.

I won't, dear.

You ought to be in there

rehearsing with Buddy and Butch.

I can't find them.

Well, go in there

and look for them.

Godfrey Daniel!

Hold your temper.

Count 10.

Now, let her go.

You got a good aim.

A beauty.

She'll get us! Come on!

She'll get us!

Good morning.

I have an engagement

for a story conference.

You big hoddy-doddy.

You smoke vile cigars all day

and drink whiskey half the night.

Some day you'll drown

in a vat of whiskey.

Drown in a vat of whiskey?

"Death, where is thy sting?"

Goodbye.

Thank you.

Shortest interview on record.

I beg your pardon.

What did you say?

I have an engagement

to read my script.

What was the name?

W. C. Bill Fields.

Glad to know you, Mr. Fields.

Glad to know you.

Step right into my office.

Yes, I will, too.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Well, that's... Well...

Excuse me.

Well, watch your step here.

Oh, drat! Oh, drat!

You're all right, Fields?

Oh!

Hello, dear.

Pardon me, Mr. Fields.

But my wife is not going to be

dragged in and out of your picture

by the hair of her head.

Of course,

this is only a rough draft.

You've got to

bear with me a half a tick.

And you'll have to take

that crab net off, dear.

Here's one of the scenes.

Do you mind being seated?

Oh, oh, no. My dear.

"You pass the pool hall.

"They're playing for

the championship of the world

"including the $2 side bet.

"You are riding in a jeep

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John T. Neville

John T. Neville (1886–1970) was an American screenwriter. more…

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