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Mr. Lucky (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1943 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
H.C. Potter

Written By:
Milton Holmes

Actors:
Cary Grant ..... Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous
Laraine Day ..... Dorothy Bryant
Charles Bickford ..... Hard Swede
Gladys Cooper ..... Captain Veronica Steadman
Alan Carney ..... Crunk
Henry Stephenson ..... Mr. Bryant
Paul Stewart ..... Zepp
Kay Johnson ..... Mrs. Mary Ostrander
Erford Gage ..... Henchman
Walter Kingsford ..... Commissioner Hargraves
Florence Bates ..... Mrs. Van Every

Synopsis:

One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, Mr. Lucky finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty, out-for-number-one gambler. Having dodged the draft by adopting the identity of a dead man, Grant sets his sights on purchasing a fancy gambling ship. To raise the necessary funds, he pretends to be working hand in glove with the American War Relief society. Once he meets Laraine Day, however, Grant is seized by an uncontrollable bout of honesty. It takes him awhile, but he finally does the right thing. The film is framed in flashback, as old seaman Charles Bickford explains why a tearful Laraine Day waits at the dock each evening for a certain ship to come in. Also in the cast is Paul Stewart as a cold-eyed but nonetheless semi-comic hoodlum, and Kay Johnson and Gladys Cooper as elegant but gullible society women. The best aspect of this breezy comedy-drama is Grant's cockney propensity for "rhyming slang," a running gag better heard than described. Mr. Lucky was later adapted into a TV series in 1959, with John Vivyan in the Cary Grant part and with Blake Edwards at the production controls.

Cary Grant plays gambler, Joe Adams, who takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. Adams plans to use a war relief charity to get his gambling operation up and running, until he falls in love with Lorraine Day and has a change of heart.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 October, 2008.

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