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Tourneur’s first assignment at MGM was as second-unit director of Charles F. Riesner’s The Winning Ticket (1935), a mild B comedy about a barber (Leo Carrillo) who wins the Irish sweepstakes but misplaces the ticket. Despite Tourneur’s account of having shot “miles and miles of footage,” including Shuftan effects, for his sequence of ...
An Italian-American barber, Joe Thomasello, buys a sweepstakes ticket but doesn’t tell his wife, Nora, as she takes a dim view of gambling in any form. The ticket turns out to be the prize winner but Joe can’t find it where he hid it from Nora, as the baby in the family found it also.
It Could Happen to You. July 29, 1994. Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money ...
8. The Ticket. 1997 1h 57m PG-13. 5.2 (316) Rate. TV Movie. Cee Cee Reicker is a woman whose love must be earned, not bought. However, even when her husband Keith wins a prize of 23 million dollars, Cee Cee isn't sure if she can repair her unstable marriage. Without agreeing, she accepts to fly with Keith and her son to get the prize.
John Silver's ship has been repossessed; the Captain and the Kids have won $100,000 in a lottery. Silver dresses as an old lady and pretends to faint on the Captain's porch. He is taken inside and soon finds the winning ticket. Meanwhile, the kids spotted him outside and dress themselves as a young lady and come on to Silver, eventually handcuffing him to a batch of fireworks.
Sweepstakes and lotteries have proved to be reliable plot motivators in Hollywood, with ticket-holders in films as diverse as Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1925), John Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), William Castle's Mr. Sardonicus (1961), and Mel Stuart's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) driven to the worst possible behavior in the expectation of the best possible outcome.
14. Nov. 2023 · Your Lucky Day: Directed by Dan Brown. With Angus Cloud, Elliot Knight, Jessica Garza, Sterling Beaumon. After a dispute over a winning lottery ticket turns into a deadly hostage situation, the witnesses must decide exactly how far they'll go, and how much blood they're willing to spill, for a cut of the $156 million.
