You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Man: There's been a mistake in my change.
Larson E. Whipsnade: Ah, at long last, an honest man. Want to return some money?
Man: No, I'm short!
Larson E. Whipsnade: Don't brag about it. I'm only five-feet-eight myself.

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[to Charlie McCarthy]
Larson E. Whipsnade: You must come down with me - after the show - to the lumberyard... and ride piggyback on the buzzsaw.

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Edgar Bergen: I have hopes of being your son-in-law.
Larson E. Whipsnade: With you, hope springs eternal.

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W.C. Fields became a big hit on radio, especially on Edgar Bergen's radio program, where he had a long-running "feud" with Charlie McCarthy. This film was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of that feud by having it carried on in a movie.
The certificate number on-screen is misprinted as 50101. The actual number as issued by the Production Code Administration (and on file in Hollywood, California) is 5101.
Legend has it that on the set of You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, a stagehand was cleaning out W.C. Fields' dressing room and accidentally bumped into a table on which Fields had placed a bottle of whiskey. He caught the bottle before it hit the floor, but the cork had popped out and he couldn't find it. He placed the bottle back on the table and left. Later Fields came back to the dressing room, and a few minutes after-wards stormed out, roaring "Who took the cork out of my lunch?"
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