The Winning Ticket

Feb 8, 1935

1h 12m

★ 3.3

The Howling Sweepstakes Comedy

Overview

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Joe Tomasello

Leo Carrillo

Nora Tomasello

Louise Fazenda

Eddie Dugan

Ted Healy

Mary Tomasello

Irene Hervey

Jimmy

James Ellison

Tony

Luis Alberni

Mr. Powers

Purnell Pratt

Guiseppe

Akim Tamiroff

Noreen Tomasello

Betty Jane Graham

Joey Tomasello Jr.

Billy Watson

Aunt Maggie

Clara Blandick

Lefty Costello

John Indrisano

Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.

6.6

Wake up Vassili

Apr 13, 1969

Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - but with no luck. His life will turn upside down when his younger sister turns out to be an anarchist and gets involved with a leftist rebellious man he already knows and hates. Eventually, in an ironic twist of faith, the two of them will earn millions and gain the exact lifestyle they used to fight against and Vasilis will lose his mind.

5.6

Bad Boys: A True Story

Jan 17, 2003

The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash.

7.1

Waking Ned

Nov 20, 1998

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

6.6

Nothing to Lose

Jul 18, 1997

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.

5.9

Speaking of the Devil

Mar 15, 1991

Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make it go bankrupt and purchase its land at a low cost.

5.9

Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro

Aug 27, 1976

It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.

4.8

Corazonada

Nov 12, 2022

A group of lottery employees plan the biggest fraud in Mexican history using a powerful weapon: the magic of television.

6.1

Uptown Saturday Night

Jul 26, 1974

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

6.0

Happy 140

Apr 10, 2015

A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.

6.4

Jackpot!

Aug 13, 2024

In the near future, a 'Grand Lottery' has been established - the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. When Katie Kim mistakenly finds herself with the winning ticket, she reluctantly joins forces with amateur lottery protection agent Noel Cassidy who must get her to sundown in exchange for a piece of her prize.

6.5

Águila o sol

May 4, 1938

At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Many years later, Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich and decides to search for his son. In the end he finds Polito and the Aguila siblings.

6.3

Zigzag of Success

Dec 30, 1968

Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov dreams of becoming a professional photographer. But suddenly luck smiles on Oreshnikov. He takes 20 rubles form the worker's mutual aid fund, buys a government lottery bond and wins 10,000 rubles. Oreshnikov wants to receive the win himself, but his colleagues object to him, because the money that he spent on the bond were public, hence the win should be divided equally among all workers. It creates a controversial situation, which is successfully resolved on the very eve of the New Year, under the chiming clock...

6.0

The Tuche Family

Jun 30, 2011

Everyone in the village of Bouzolles knows the Tuche family, who live by the philosophy "Man is not made to work." Despite their lack of money, they strive to be happy... that is, until their hand-to-mouth existence is turned on its head. After winning the lottery, the Tuches get rich beyond their wildest dreams and move to Monaco. And while attempting to fit in in their swanky new homeland, they struggle to stay true to the same principles by which they've always lived.

4.8

Lucky

Jul 15, 2011

A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.

2.9

Aamayum Muyalum

Dec 19, 2014

The film is set in a fictitious poverty-ridden village of Gowlipady, which is virtually ruled by the ruthless zamindari Bhandaravathi . Kashi is a lottery salesman. He is the only literate person of his village. Once, a lottery sold by him happens to win the first prize of 5 Crore Indian Rupee. Greedy Kashi tries to get back the lottery ticket but doesn't know to whom he has sold the ticket to.

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6.8

Two Lottery Tickets

Oct 7, 2016

3 men from a provincial town who are in an urgent need for money so they decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but very soon, the ticket gets stolen.

2.0

The Million Dollar Kid

Jan 18, 2000

The Hunter family has hit the jackpot--scoring a winning 50 million dollar lottery ticket! But when the ticket is lost on the way to cashing it in, the Hunters face overwhelming obstacles in chasing down the ticket before it is stolen by some unsavory characters in this madcap action comedy.

0.0

Fortune Flies

Aug 12, 2017

What are the chances of winning the lottery jackpot and then losing it instantaneously? Our unlucky hero Phaidon is about to find out, in a heart-wrenching turn of events, as fortune flies away.