Lonesome Luke, a plumber's assistant, is informed that he has won the Throttlemush mansion in the lottery. Just then the whole place blows up and the hero is relieved of his burden.
A chimney-swept nobody, Luke, inherits a palace and loses it to TNT in the same heartbeat—an epitaph for every rags-to-riches fantasy the Roaring Twenties ever printed on a ticker-tape. The gag lands like a brick through stained glass: fortune drops from the sky only to self-destruct, leaving its winner lighter, gui...
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" A chimney-swept nobody, Luke, inherits a palace and loses it to TNT in the same heartbeat—an epitaph for every rags-to-riches fantasy the Roaring Twenties ever printed on a ticker-tape. The gag lands like a brick through stained glass: fortune drops from the sky only to self-destruct, leaving its winner lighter, guiltless, absurdly free. In that sliver of celluloid, The Lucky Number becomes a pocket-sized Det finns inga gudar på jorden, a secular sermon on the theology of chance. Where The Ro..."
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