Mr. Lucky (1943)
- Starring:
- Cary Grant, Laraine Day, (more)
- Director(s):
- H.C. Potter
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
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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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Cary Grant - Joe Adams
- Charles Bickford - Hard Swede
- Alan Carney - Crunk
- Paul Stewart - Zepp
- Erford Gage - Gaffer
- J.M. Kerrigan - McDougal
- Vladimir Sokoloff - Greek Priest
- Charles Lane - Comstock
- John Bleifer - Siga
- Ray Flynn - Cop
- Lloyd Ingraham - Taxi Driver
- Juan Varro - Joe Bascopolus
- Robert Strange - Captain Costello
- Emory Parnell - Dock Watchman
- Ariel Heath - Girl
- Frank Henry - Reporter on Street
- Al Rhein
- Sam Finn
- Jack Gargan - Reporter
- Charles Cane - Comstock
- Joseph Crehan - Detective
- Hal K. Dawson - Draft Board Director
- Laraine Day - Dorothy Bryant
- Gladys Cooper - Capt. Steadman
- Henry Stephenson - Mr. Bryant
- Kay Johnson - Mrs. Ostrander
- Walter Kingsford - Convoy Commissioner Hargraves
- Edward Fielding - Foster
- Budd Fine - Stevedore
- Florence Bates - Mrs. Van Every
- Don Brodie - Dealer
- Sam Harris - Gambling Extra
- Isabel Withers
- Mary Stuart - Girl
- Hilda Plowright - Maid
- Al Murphy
- Daphne Moore - Nurse
- Art Yeoman
- Fred Rapport - Gambler
- Frank Mills - Workman at Slot Machine
- Mary Forbes - Dowager
- Rita Corday - Girl
- Kernan Cripps - Detective
- Director(s):
- H.C. Potter
- Writer(s):
- Adrian Scott, Milton Holmes
- Producer(s):
- David Hempstead
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR(Suitable for Children)
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