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The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Collection of five features starring the great cantankerous comic W.C. Fields. In You're Telling Me! (1934), he's an eccentric inventor whose madcap creations wreak havoc in the lives of his family and friends. He tangles with infant nemesis Baby LeRoy in The Old Fashioned Way (1934), playing The Great McGonigle, a scheming theatrical manager always on the make and one step ahead of his creditors. In Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) he's a henpecked husband who tells a white lie that backfires with a vengeance, bringing his incensed boss and his overbearing in-laws down on his hapless head. The musical comedy Poppy (1936) returns Fields to the role that made him a Broadway star, a small-time con man who schemes to pass off his adopted daughter (Rochelle Hudson) as the long-lost heir to a fortune. And he plays himself in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), pitching an outrageous script to a skeptical producer that takes the most absurd turns in the film within a film. Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, and the indefatigable foil Margaret Dumont co-star.