Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

“It's a Fields-day of fun!”

W.C. Fields plays himself, a man with a screenplay to sell to Esoteric Studios, and the trip there is rough: little boys insult him, a stranger beats him up for ogling a woman, and a waitress abuses him. Edward F. Cline directs, and as Fields pitches his story to a skeptical producer, the scenes he describes play out on screen. Through it all there is his Niece (Gloria Jean), the one person who stays on his side.