Lame farce about a greeting card writer (inspired by Mr Deeds Goes to Town?) who also happens to be a great one for picking race horse winners, provided he actually doesn’t bet himself. So some professional gamblers get involved. Er, that’s about it. The leads are played by middle aged character actors with wacky accents including Sam Levene and Shirley Booth. This was a bit hit in its day and was often revived – why? It’s not particularly funny, the idea isn’t that great, neither is the structure or dialogue (I kept expecting it to get life or death with some gangster, but it never did). Maybe people liked seeing character actors play colourful Runyon-esque types.
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Might have inspired Deeds since it premiered on Broadway the year before the film was released.
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