The Lucky Devil

The Lucky Devil

1925 · 63 min · ★ 7.2 · Action, Comedy, Drama

Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!

Directed by Frank Tuttle · Written by Byron Morgan

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Cast

Richard Dix Randy Farnum
Esther Ralston Doris McDee
Edna May Oliver Mrs. McDee
Thomas Findley Franklyne Sr
Anthony Jowitt Rudolph Franklyne
Joseph Burke The Professor
Mary Foy Mrs. Hunt
Gunboat Smith Sailor Sheldon
Charles Sellon Sheriff
Charles Hammond Tobias Sedgmore
Charles McDonald Tom Barrity
George Webb 'Frenchy' Rogers

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