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Originally Posted by Tim Y
No but a fellow in the flop house where he winds up does......Of course my favorites in that series are Charlie Ruggles who breaks lots of china after he gets the money or W.C. Fields who buys a bunch of cars and runs road hogs off the road.
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I remember the Fields segment most of all - I haven't seen this film in about 40 years. It was one of my mother's favorite films from her youth, and we watched it together. It's a Paramount pre-48 film, now owned by Universal as are all of Paramount's pre-48s. It doesn't get played on TV, nor is it on DVD. My mother just turned 89 and she would like to see it again. The other one she most wanted to see, GRAND HOTEL, I was able to give her and we watched that together last July.
I guess we can't imagine the impact of the plotline of a film like IF I HAD A MILLION, upon a weary Depression audience. I can only hope that our present economy doesn't put us in the position of realizing that - this must have been the ultimate wish-fulfillment film of the 1930s.
I thought that the film SEABISCUIT did do a nice job of juxtaposing the era and the principals of the story, all of whom were beat up in one way or another. Plus it had the most well-filmed racing scenes I've seen in any movie.