A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory..
Is it worth your time? If you like old-school Hollywood anthologies and don't mind that the quality shifts every fifteen minutes, then yes. It’s a total time capsule. If you need a tight, singular plot that makes sense from start to finish, you will probably hate this. The whole premise is just deliciously spiteful. A...
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"Is it worth your time? If you like old-school Hollywood anthologies and don't mind that the quality shifts every fifteen minutes, then yes. It’s a total time capsule. If you need a tight, singular plot that makes sense from start to finish, you will probably hate this. The whole premise is just deliciously spiteful. A dying tycoon decides to spite his own family by handing out his millions to random people. Watching him go through a phone book like he’s picking teams for dodgeball is just delig..."
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Whitney Bolton, Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Claude Binyon, Lester Cole, Lawton Mackall, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ernst Lubitsch, John Bright, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Boyce DeGaw, Sidney Buchman, Robert Hardy Andrews, Isabel Dawn, Harvey Gates
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