The Great Rupert (1950), The Million Pound Note (1953), Double Dynamite (1951), Manna From Heaven (2001), Blonde Fever (1944), Blank Check (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Financial Windfall movies.
Storyline: A Christmas Wish is a heartwarming holiday classic about a New York family (led by Durante) who is down on their luck at Christmas time. Shortly before Christmas, they move into a ground floor apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just when it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel, not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever. The film is enlivened with the warmth and sweetness of an unforgettable love story between Terry Moore (of Mighty Joe Young) and Tom Drake (of Meet Me in St. Louis). Rupert the Squirrel (created using George Pal's Academy Award winning animation technique) will charm young and old alike. Jimmy Durante shines when he sings Jingle Bells and other well-loved Christmas carols in the evocative voice that made him one of America's recording legends.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: wife, mother, father, vaudevillian, landlord, daughter, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.—Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
Plot Keywords: seaman, millionaire, brother, niece, duke, strong man, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to marry his sweetheart 'Mibs' Goodhug, saves a big-time bookie from a beating and receives a munificent reward...which just happens to match a mysterious shortage at the bank! Will Johnny's pal, eccentric waiter Emile, get him out of trouble...or in so deep he'll never get out?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: bank teller, waiter, bookie, girlfriend, loan shark, detective, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), then find out many years later that it was just a loan, and you must pay up immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in Buffalo, New York was mysteriously showered with $20-bills. Theresa, a young girl thought of as a saint by everyone, had little trouble convincing her loose-knit "family" that the money was a gift from heaven. Years later, Theresa has become a nun and now has an epiphany that it is time to pay the money back, so she calls the eccentric group together to repay the "loan." The problem is, nobody wants to give back the money, nobody has the money, they don't know to whom it belongs, and most of them can't stand one another. Along the way, the characters learn about family, romance, reconciliation, and redemption, and by working together they begin to realize their full potential.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: nun, card dealer, con artist, relative, airy, melodramatic, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Married for ten years, Frenchman Peter Donay, a reformed Monte Carlo gambler, and American Delilah Donay own and operate Cafe Donay, an upscale French restaurant outside of Lake Tahoe. Delilah can tell that Peter's mind has been elsewhere of late, which she further knows is due to his infatuation with Sally Murfin, their young, blonde waitress, demonstrating that Peter's pre-marriage womanizing ways are resurfacing. Sally is already engaged to her longtime beau Freddie Bilson, who works at the nearby service station, their engagement which doesn't stop her from flirting with Peter in liking the attention and arguably a large gambling windfall that exposed Peter's gambling habit also as being less than reformed. Beyond the issue of Sally, Peter and Freddie don't much like each other, Peter because of the air of "grease monkey" Freddie gives the restaurant every time he drives up in his beaten up motorcycle. Delilah believes that Freddie and Sally getting married sooner than later will halt Peter's infatuation with Sally, the marriage only possible if Freddie earns more money than he can make at the service station. When that plan for Freddie to earn more money turns out to be less than fruitful, Delilah, with a little help from their faithful bartender/wine steward Johnny, turns to Plan B to expose both Peter and Sally's deep down feelings.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: restaurant owner, wife, gold digger, boyfriend, waitress, airy, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After committing check fraud, Preston Waters lives out his 12-year-old fantasies by spending a million dollars in 6 days, but he quickly realizes he can't quite handle the consequences. Miguel Ferrer and Brian Bonsall star in this 1994 kid classic that will leave you asking, "Why didn't this kid get grounded?"
Plot Keywords: young boy, criminal, undercover agent, parent, underling, brother, amusing ...
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