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The Lottery Lover (1935)

The Lottery Lover poster
Directed by
Wilhelm Thiele
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three young men from a military academy pool their money to buy a lottery ticket. When it wins a big prize, a comic series of misunderstandings and romantic mix-ups follows among the cadets and their love interests.

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What happens

Lottery Lover is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Lew Ayres, Pat Paterson, Peggy Fears and Sterling Holloway. The film was released on February 5, 1935, by Fox Film Corporation. The screenplay written by Franz Schulz and Billy Wilder. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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