Director: Jean Negulesco

Writers: John Huston; Howard Koch

Music by: Adolph Deutsch

Producer: Wolfgang Reinhardt

Keywords: Dark Comedy, Wish, Lottery

A woman collects together three unsympathetic strangers, including herself, to make a wish before a statue of Kwan Yin, the Chinese God of Luck and Fortune which will surely come true. They are an alcoholic, an embezzler, and a manipulative nymphomaniac. The three make an unbreakable agreement (break it, luck would forfeit) to share any winnings from the purchase of a lottery ticket tide to the Grand National horse race. Though they disperse, their stories will inevitably reconverge.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Alvin	Actor	24-Oct-1917	27-Feb-2009	The Fighting Sullivans
Geraldine Fitzgerald	Actor	24-Nov-1913	17-Jul-2005	Wuthering Heights
Sydney Greenstreet	Actor	27-Dec-1879	18-Jan-1954	Kaspar Gutman in The Maltese Falcon
Doris Lloyd	Actor	3-Jul-1896	21-May-1968	British-American character actress
Peter Lorre	Actor	26-Jun-1904	23-Mar-1964	The Maltese Falcon
Joan Lorring	Actor	17-Apr-1926	30-May-2014	The Corn Is Green
Alan Napier	Actor	7-Jan-1903	8-Aug-1988	Alfred on Batman
Robert Shayne	Actor	4-Oct-1900	29-Nov-1992	Insp. Henderson on Adventures of Superman

CAST

Sydney Greenstreet	...   Jerome K. Arbutny
Geraldine Fitzgerald	...   Crystal Shackleford
Peter Lorre	...   John West
With
Joan Lorring	...   Icy Crane
Robert Shayne	...   Fallon
Marjorie Riordan	...   Janet Elliott
Arthur Shields	...   Prosecutor
Rosalind Ivan	...   Lady Rhea Beladon
John Alvin	...   Junior Clerk
Peter Whitney	...   Gabby
Alan Napier	...   David Shackleford
Clifford Brooke	...   Senior Clerk
Doris Lloyd	...   Mrs. Proctor

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