The Love Lottery 1954 Story by Charles Neilson Gattey and Zelma Bramley Moore, screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, additional dialogue and scenes by Monja Danischewsky, directed by Charles Crichton. It's part of Network's The British Film series.
David Niven is a movie star, popular for his romantic adventure rolls, and he's become tired of the female fans intruding on his life. It's affecting his dreams, in the opening sequence he dreams the gals have pulled off his head and are passing it about like it's a basketball. David wants a vacation from all the pressures but all the studio can think of is turning his alone time into publicity by schmoozing the locals.
David buys out his contract and tries to drum up interest in him doing a stage play but that pans out. He decides to set up camp in a small Italian village near Lake Como. Herbert Lom is the head of a gambling syndicate, he manipulates David into being the prize in a lottery. They sell a quarter of a million tickets and Peggy Cummins wins. She spends some time with David and winds up marrying her boyfriend. That's OK with David, he'd fallen for Herbert's mathematician, played by Anne Vernon.
It's not much better than average. You'd think this all the people working on the story and script they've have something a bit sharper.I'd still watch it again.
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