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Sweepstakes Winner

  • 1939
  • Approved
  • 59min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,2/10
165
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Jerry Colonna, Johnnie Davis, Charley Foy, Allen Jenkins, and Marie Wilson in Sweepstakes Winner (1939)
A naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish Sweepstake ticket.
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish S... Leggi tuttoA naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish Sweepstake ticket.A naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish Sweepstake ticket.

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    • William C. McGann
  • Sceneggiatura
    • John W. Krafft
    • Albert DeMond
    • Hugh Cummings
  • Star
    • Marie Wilson
    • Johnnie Davis
    • Allen Jenkins
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,2/10
    165
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • William C. McGann
    • Sceneggiatura
      • John W. Krafft
      • Albert DeMond
      • Hugh Cummings
    • Star
      • Marie Wilson
      • Johnnie Davis
      • Allen Jenkins
    • 8Recensioni degli utenti
    • 1Recensione della critica
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    Interpreti principali24

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    Marie Wilson
    Marie Wilson
    • Jennie Jones
    Johnnie Davis
    Johnnie Davis
    • Mark Downey
    Allen Jenkins
    Allen Jenkins
    • 'Tip' Bailey
    Charley Foy
    Charley Foy
    • 'Jinx' Donovan
    Jerry Colonna
    Jerry Colonna
    • Nick
    Frankie Burke
    Frankie Burke
    • Chalky Williams
    Vera Lewis
    Vera Lewis
    • Mrs. McCarthy
    Granville Bates
    Granville Bates
    • Pop Reynolds
    Eddie Kane
    Eddie Kane
    • Mr. Blake
    Bert Hanlon
    • Poolroom Guard
    George Lloyd
    George Lloyd
    • Dutch
    Sidney Bracey
    Sidney Bracey
    • Mr. Simpkins
    • (as Sidney Bracy)
    Charles Irwin
    Charles Irwin
    • English Radio Announcer
    Jack A. Goodrich
    • Betting Teller
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Sol Gorss
    Sol Gorss
    • Racetrack Policeman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    John Harron
    John Harron
    • Tote Board Announcer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Reid Kilpatrick
    Reid Kilpatrick
    • Track Announcer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Al Lloyd
    • Cigar Man
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • William C. McGann
    • Sceneggiatura
      • John W. Krafft
      • Albert DeMond
      • Hugh Cummings
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    Recensioni degli utenti8

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    3planktonrules

    A comedy with two huge strikes against it.

    In the 1930s-50s, Marie Wilson essentially played the same character again and again...a ditzy blonde who made Gracie Allen seem like a Nobel Prize winner! Occasionally, this sort of thing can work but often she just comes off as annoying when you see her films today....and she's incredibly annoying in "Sweepstakes Winner".

    The story begins with Jennie arriving in the big city and she's looking for Jinx and Tip (Charley Foy and Allen Jenkins). They think she's with the law...but someone ill-advisedly suggested to her that she find the two gamblers so they can help her locate and buy a specific horse, Firefly. Unfortunately, the pair are not only hapless gamblers but really unsavory jerks who repeatedly do things which could get them sent to prison. But Jennie is so brainless that she never notices as they rob her again and again and again.

    In addition to Wilson being tiresome, the film also has a major problem when it comes to Jinx and Tip. At times, they seemed to be comic relief...there for fun and silliness. But other times the pair are downright evil....to the point where you cannot like them and you only want to see them in prison. The characters clearly were poorly written and should have just been comic relief...but they wanted them to be silly AND sympathetic AND evil...a combination that just didn't work.

    Overall, a very difficult film to watch, as it just is hard to keep watching. My wife kept hoping I'd give up...but I apparently like pain and kept watching up to the ending. And, at least the final scene...well, it worked VERY well and gave me exactly what I wanted!
    8sambase-38773

    Funny And Adorable

    I'm not a big fan of horse racing movies. They're just too predictable. Guess who wins? Haha. Besides, I've been bitten by horses and kicked by horses and let me tell you horses can really bite hard and they can really kick hard, too. Luckily, the horse racing is kept to a minimum in this movie. That's just fine with me, but if you want to watch this movie mainly to see a bunch of horse racing you're going to be disappointed.

    What this movie does have, thank goodness, is lots of comedy and an absolutely adorable main actress, Marie Wilson. She is one of a kind. 100 percent pure adorability. She puts the "bumpkin" in country bumpkin in this movie. She wins some money in the sweepstakes and there's nothing funnier than a country bumpkin winning money. The comedy is easy to achieve from there. Don't we all love country bumpkins? Especially when they're pretty and adorable? I should say so. And of course with her money she wants to buy a horse. A race horse. Uh-oh, here we go. Country bumpkin. Pretty girl. Money. Race horse. Sounds like the recipe for a movie to me!

    The actor who plays the jockey who rides the big horse in the big race is a look-a-like and sound-a-like for Jimmy Cagney. I don't know if that was on purpose or just an accident. Now that I think about it I think it was on purpose. At least I hope it was because it works beautifully. It kept making me laugh.

    Not much more to say I guess without spoiling the movie. It's fun. It's funny. And it's adorable. 8 stars.
    4Art-22

    A silly horseracing comedy.

    Marie Wilson is toplined in this horseracing comedy, which depends a great deal on her "dumb blonde" character she had in all her roles, and which culminated in her Irma character in the My Friend Irma (1949) movie and the My Friend Irma (1952) TV series. It's the type of comedy I never did like. If it weren't for the ever-reliable Allen Jenkins and his savvy comedy, this movie would be a total bust. I did enjoy Jerry Colonna in his all-too-small role as a chef, and Frankie Burke, mostly because his normal way of talking sounds like James Cagney in all his roles.

    Perhaps Marie Wilson was not putting on an act. According to the AFI Catalogue, studio records state that because she couldn't pronounce Jenkins' character name "Xerxes," often saying "Jerky," the writers gave Jenkins the nickname of "Tip." In any case, I'm sure she didn't cry all the way to the bank.
    3AlsExGal

    Manages to be both inane and boring

    Jenny Jones (Marie Wilson) comes to town looking for Tip Bailey (Allen Jenkins) and Jinx Donovan. She has a one thousand dollar inheritance and wants to buy Firefly, a broken down nag descended from one of her grandfather's horses, and she's been told these two guys can help. Well, yes they can, if you mean they can help themselves.

    At this point these two guys use this young girl to get money for themselves. Then Jenny buys the winning Irish Sweepstakes ticket and ends up with 150 thousand dollars, which is about three million today. She buys firefly and a nice house with grounds for the horse, but still Tip and Jinx are always trying to scam this woman, even out of her last ten thousand dollars. Should she have been more prudent with her money? For sure. But that doesn't give these two the right to continually victimize her and then say that they are her pals.

    Along for the ride is Johnny Davis as one of the most unappealing leading men in the history of the world, who wants to marry Jenny but also does not want to be considered a fortune hunter by others. So this movie's characters are either unlikeable thieves (Tip and Jinx), terminally dense (Jenny), or seemingly without purpose to the entire plot (Jenny's boss/boyfriend). It's hard to like a movie without anybody to root for.

    This is very much a second feature, something probably made to fill out the evening's bill that people were hardly going to watch in the first place, and that's a good thing.
    6wes-connors

    Fun at the Racetrack

    Naive blonde waitress Marie Wilson (as Jennie Jones) arrives from small-town Athens, Nebraska, intending to buy a racehorse named "Firefly". The beloved nag is descended from a horse owned by her grandfather. Unfortunately, Ms. Wilson gets involved with two con men, smooth-talking Allen Jenkins (as "Tip" Bailey) and his well-suited partner Charley Foy (as "Jinx" Donovan). After she is fleeced, Wilson gets a waitressing job. She is hired after hinting she may be available for dating after hours, on Saturday nights, with romantically-inclined boss Johnnie Davis (as Mark Downe). Wilson's luck changes with a winning "Irish Sweepstakes" ticket. In a highlight, she makes her serving tray fly. Wilson is able to buy "Firefly", but sneaky Mr. Jenkins wants to take further advantage...

    Jenkins hits all the marks, and likely adds some of his own, in this otherwise routine comedy. With his distinctive voice, the character actor was dependable, for decades, in this type of role. Wilson is cute and bubbly; at times, you wonder if Judy Garland borrowed some of her delivery. Mugging jockey Frankie Burke (as "Chalky" Williams) has a couple of good scenes and, as a concerned landlady, veteran Vera Lewis gets to share some of her acid-tongue. Among the extras, it's interesting to see John Harron get some lines and screen time. The brother of silent D.W. Griffith "silent" star Robert Harron, John is the fast-talking Narragansett racetrack announcer. Diner chef Jerry Colonna rolls his eyes. All told, director William McGann neatly corrals the second-string cast and crew at Warner Bros.

    ****** Sweepstakes Winner (5/20/39) William McGann ~ Marie Wilson, Allen Jenkins, Johnnie Davis, Charley Foy

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      The fire engines seen going to the race track were from Los Angeles Fire Department Station 66, that was located at 1715 W. Florence Avenue from 1929 to 1989. That building still stands as of this writing. The new Station 66 is located at 1909 W. Slauson Blvd. and serves the Hyde Park - South LA - Vermont Harbor area.
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      When Jennie looks at the sweepstakes ticket after first returning to her room, in close-up the hands holding the ticket have nail polish. However in longer shots of Jennie she doesn't have nail polish on her fingernails.
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      Horseplayer: [after horse they bet on loses] You call yourself a tipster. "Play Corned Beef. Corned Beef can't lose." You were talking to the jockey's Aunt Minnie. And me with 10 bucks on these whiskers. I oughta take it outta your hide.

      'Tip' Bailey: All right, all right! Take it easy, will ya? I'm only human.

      Horseplayer: Who told ya that?

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    • Data di uscita
      • 20 maggio 1939 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingue
      • Inglese
      • Francese
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
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      • Warner Bros.
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