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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Luckiest Guy in the World is a 1947 short film (20 minutes) directed by Joseph M. Newman.It is the 50th and last short in the MGM Crime Does Not Pay short film series that dated back to 1935. The film follows Charles Vurn (Barry Nelson), who has a serious gambling problem. Charles has been losing a lot of money betting on the horses, which is bad. He's been stealing the money from his job as an insurance salesman to gamble with, which is way worse.Events come to a head when his boss, unimpressed at Charles's excuses for not getting the regular payments from policy holders, suggests that he may soon go to collect the money himself. Charles thus needs to come up with the money immediately. He goes home and asks for his wife Martha's savings, left from her mother. Martha refuses, and events take a tragic turn, and then take some more odd twists.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The gas leak in the apartment complex, as mentioned by both Martha and the landlord. Charles later finds out that there was a fire at the apartment after he left, and thus Martha is presumed to have died in a fire, and his desperate Faking the Dead plot proved to be unnecessary. | |
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Broken Aesop: It's a "Crime Does Not Pay" short, after all, but Charles gets away with everything! He's not blamed for Martha's death, the cops swallow his story about the dead guy in his car, he collects on his bet, he can deposit the landlord's check, he even stands to be made a partner at Ashlan Insurance! In fact the theme is that the world seems to be governed by nothing but luck, and that when your luck is good you can commit a bunch of crimes and get away with it, but when your luck is bad you might catch a random bullet while standing on the sidewalk. | |
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