Sweepstakes Winner (1939)
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Directors
William C. McGann
Cast
Marie Wilson
The story
A naive girl, Jennie, inherits $1,000 from her grandfather, who tells her to buy a particular racehorse with it. His instructions send her to two broke bookies. They tell her she need $5,000 to buy the horse and offer to bet it for her on a 5 to 1 horse in a race that day.
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