The Luckiest Guy in the World

  • Crime
  • Drama
1/25/1947
21

Storyline

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

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  • Geronimo1967

    Vurn (Barry Nelson) is $150 in the hole to his bookie and so borrows the proceeds of his insurance job to settle the debt and back some horses. He regularly fobs off his boss (Milton Kibbee), but this time he wants the cash - and next day, too. Luckily, his wife (Eloise Hardt) has a nest-egg from her late mother, but she isnt about to hand it over to this wastrel and so a scuffle ensues with tragic consequences. Rather than face up to those, he decides to abscond but before he can board the bus he realises that there might just be a better, and much more lucrative, solution - but what chance he can get away with it all? You do have to suspend reality a bit with Vurn as he acquires some rather unpleasant skills a bit too readily and the stor...

    July 21, 2025

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