You Can't Buy Luck

April. 30,1937

Rating：

5.4

Genre：

Drama Crime Romance

Keywords：

Orphanage Gold Digger Superstition

Trailer Synopsis Cast

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

Onslow Stevens as Joe Baldwin

Helen Mack as Betty McKay

Vinton Hayworth as Paul Vinette

Maxine Jennings as Jean Jason

Paul Guilfoyle as Frank Bent

Frank M. Thomas as Lieutenant Bond

Richard Lane as Det. McGrath

Murray Alper as Spike Connors

Hedda Hopper as Agnes White

George Irving as Doug White

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Reviews

Alicia

1937/04/30

I love this movie so much

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Teringer

1937/05/01

An Exercise In Nonsense

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Philippa

1937/05/02

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Darin

1937/05/03

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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ksf-2

1937/05/04

Hedda Hopper is the only big name name I recognize in this short version film from RKO. Joe Baldwin (Onslow Stevens) races horses, and is rather superstitious. His girl is Jean Jason (Maxine Jennings), and she wants to secretly toot off to europe with her "friend" Paul (Vinton Hayworth). Lots of intrigue, murder, mayhem. some story elements in here, about adopting, and helping out an orphanage home. Baldwin gets blamed for a killing, but did he really do it? We watch the courtroom drama, while his new girl runs around and tries to find the truth. Hedda Hopper has only a small role in this one. Too bad. Not a very exciting tale, but its not bad. Helen Mack is in here as "Betty". She worked with some of the greats of Hollywood. Check out her story on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mack . Directed by Lew Landers, who had popped onto the scene in the early 1930s. Shown on TCM now & then, this one kind of has a murder noir feeling.

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Phil_DePayne

1937/05/05

Onslow Stevens and Helen Mack never achieved true greatness in movies, but they had some success in TV and Broadway, perhaps because of the many films they made for the studio system (like this one) that were of unexceptional quality. The plot summary listed above could be the storyboard for the movie, so I won't waste your time; however, a quick scan above should give you an idea of how odd the story is. Summing up the first half, Onslow Stevens is an extremely superstitious gambler, down on his luck. By way of an orphanage that has brought him his bad luck he finds instant love with an all too nice girl played by Helen Mack. The second half is best stated as an "innocent man framed for murder gets nice girl to find proof he's not guilty while on the lam then convinces cops to set up real killer in the nick of time--the end" type of story. Heard that one before? If you need background noise while working on a really late night then this is your movie.

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