Love on a Bet

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Love on a Bet
Love on a Bet.jpg
Directed by Leigh Jason
Screenplay by P. J. Wolfson
Philip G. Epstein
Story by Kenneth Earl
Produced by B. B. Kahane
Lee Marcus (associate)
Starring Gene Raymond
Wendy Barrie
Helen Broderick
Cinematography Robert de Grasse
Edited by Desmond Marquette
Music by Alberto Colombo
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
  • March 4, 1936 (1936-03-04)(Premiere-New York City) [1]
  • March 6, 1936 (1936-03-06)(US) [1]
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Love on a Bet is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by Leigh Jason using a screenplay by P. J. Wolfson and Philip G. Epstein, based on a story by Kenneth Earl. The film stars Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, and Helen Broderick, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures on February 1, 1936.

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Plot

Michael McCreigh needs $15,000 to finance a new play. He proposes an outrageous wager with his rich Uncle Carlton that he can leave New York City without clothes or money and make it to Los Angeles in 10 days, and arrive there in a new suit, with $100, and a new girl. If not, he will quit the theater and go into his uncle's meatpacking business.

Dropped off from a limousine in only his undergarments at Central Park, Michael encounters Paula Gilbert and her beau Jackson Wallace, promptly stealing his tux. He then swapped the formal wear for a world war, one soldiers, outfit, and by coincidence his picked up by Paula and her Aunt Charlotte while hitchhiking.

The two women, members of New York City, social register down in their fortunes, are en route to Los Angeles, where Paula intends to marry Wallace simply for his money, leaving immediately with him for two years in China.

To the consternation of her aunt, who is counting on Paula‘s financial security, Paula begins to fall for Michael. His various schemes earn him money on the way west, but after two escaped convicts rob them, Paula becomes aware of Michael's bet and is disappointed in him. He manages to get to L.A. just in time, with reward money for capturing the fugitives, and Paula forgives him. Then she demands that he go into his uncle's meatpacking trade after all.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Love on a Bet: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2014.