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Rating: 6.5 stars

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short film gambling debt identity thief

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The Luckiest Guy in the World (1947)

Directed by Joseph M. Newman

Crime | Short

Overview

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man destroys his life through gambling debts and stealing company funds.

Length 21 minutes

Actors

Barry Nelson | Eloise Hardt | George Travell | Milton Kibbee | Harry Cheshire

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

This is the last short film on the FILM NOIR: BRINGING DARKNESS TO LIGHT dvd. None of these “Crime Does Not Pay” shorts are film noir but since this is a Warner Bros release and the doc is so short they padded the disc w/5 short films from this series. I’d like to see more of these but the Warner Archive dvd of the set is pretty pricey.

This one plays out exactly as you’d expect. Guy gets in debt and tries to get out, commits a terrible act, gets lucky and it catches up to him.

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