{"id":30798,"date":"2022-10-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30798"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:56:58","slug":"lucky-ghost-aka-lady-luck-1942-starring-mantan-moreland-f-e-miller-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30798","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lucky Ghost&#8221; aka &#8220;Lady Luck&#8221; (1942) Starring Mantan Moreland &#038; F.E. Miller \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102822zview_luckyghost.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"738\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lucky Ghost <\/strong><\/em>aka <em><strong>Lady Luck <\/strong><\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>William Beaudine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Lex Neal, Vernon Smith<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Mantan Moreland, F.E. Miller, Maceo Bruce Sheffield <\/strong>and <strong>Napoleon Whiting.\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>A Thriller-Diller Laff Sensation Feature!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington (Moreland) and Jefferson (Miller) are down-on-their-luck friends looking for an opportunity.\u00a0 When they meet a couple of rich men standing by a limo, they learn that the driver has gone for gas.\u00a0 Washington entices the men into a dice game.\u00a0 By the time the driver has returned, Washington has won all of the men&#8217;s money, their fancy clothes and the car!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington and Jefferson have the driver take them to a nearby country club.\u00a0 The club is run by a crook named Dr. Brutus Blake (Sheffield).\u00a0 Blake invites Washington to play in his private gambling room.\u00a0 There he plans to swindle Washington out of all his cash using crooked dice.\u00a0 What Blake doesn&#8217;t know is that ghosts are watching and don&#8217;t like what they&#8217;re seeing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie really takes off once Mantan begins playing craps in the club.\u00a0 He&#8217;s hilarious when he&#8217;s forced to roll using dice he knows will cause him to lose.\u00a0<em> Lady Luck<\/em> isn&#8217;t as funny as <em>Mr. Washington Goes to Town<\/em>, but this semi-sequel has its moments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Lucky Ghost<\/strong><\/em> aka <em><strong>Lady Luck <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z102822zview_luckyghost2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky Ghost aka Lady Luck (1942) Director:\u00a0 William Beaudine Screenplay:\u00a0 Lex Neal, Vernon Smith Stars:\u00a0 Mantan Moreland, F.E. 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