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You Can't Buy Luck is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lew Landers released in USA on 30 april 1937 with Onslow Stevens

You Can't Buy Luck (1937)

You Can't Buy Luck
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Released in USA 30 april 1937
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime,    Romance
Rating54% 2.7283752.7283752.7283752.7283752.728375

You Can't Buy Luck is a 1937 murder mystery film. It made a profit of $24,000.

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Superstitious New York gambler Joe Baldwin (Onslow Stevens), owner of the thoroughbred racing horse Sarcasm, believes that luck can be bought with charitable deeds. Before the Kentucky Derby, to "buy luck," he finances an expensive trip to Europe for gold-digger Jean Jason, his "good luck charm," not knowing she is taking her lover with her, gigolo and sometime artist Paul Vinette (Vinton Hayworth). He also gives his old friend Frank Brent cash to save his cab business and visits an orphanage in Louisville with his sister, where he meets Betty McKay (Helen Mack), a pretty teacher who scoffs at his philosophy.

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