Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey but manage to take her husband (wealthy Simeon Trott) for a bundle.
W.C. Fields
as Gabby Gilfoil
Chester Conklin
as Sheriff Ben Holden
Mary Brian
as Mary Gilfoil
Jack Luden
as Tony Holden
George Irving
as Simeon Trott
Cissy Fitzgerald
as Madge Malarkey
James Quinn
as Slippery Sawtelle
Vivian Duncan
as Vivian Duncan
Rosetta Duncan
as Rosetta Duncan
Raymond Hatton
as Hatton - as Beery and Hatton (uncredited)
Wallace Beery
as Beery - Of Berry and Hatton (uncredited)
John Aasen
as The Giant (uncredited)