A man accidentally wins the New Year's lottery and chaos ensues as he tries to keep his win a secret but gets caught up in a series of comedic mishaps and misunderstandings.
A recently released ex-convict finds himself involved in a theater performance, where he becomes entangled in a series of hilarious and chaotic events. As he tries to hide his criminal past, he must navigate the backstage drama, a chase for a winning ticket, and a hidden corpse. Based on the novel, the story takes place in 1960s Paris, in Montmartre. With surprising twists and turns, this comedy keeps the audience entertained until the very end.
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.
A crooked jockey tries to reform.
Bert Lahr is a butler in the employ of some newly-rich family. His sweetheart kitchen-worker gives away his sweepstakes ticket to the chauffeur. It turns out to be the big winner. Then Bert has to go to work trying to convince the chauffeur to give him his ticket back, and the chauffeur has no intention of doing so.
Two criminals hear about a woman who has won a prize in the lottery, and decide to kidnap her to force her to give them the money. Unfortunately, they don't know that the prize she won amounted to $50.
Wally Vernon and Eddie Quillan, each in trouble with their respective spouse, spend the day at the race track. When they accidentally bet on the wrong horse rather than the one they had picked, they hit a long-shot winner. But their more-than-irate wives show up before they can collect their winnings, and the only winner is Big Dan, the bookie.
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