$1,000 a Minute
"A CARLOAD OF LAUGHS YOU'D WALK A MILE TO SEE!"
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
"A CARLOAD OF LAUGHS YOU'D WALK A MILE TO SEE!"
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
Roger Pryor
Wally Jones
Leila Hyams
Dorothy Summers
Edward Brophy
Benny Dolan
Sterling Holloway
Pete
Edgar Kennedy
Police Officer McCarthy
Purnell Pratt
Charlie, the Editor
Herman Bing
Vanderbrocken
Arthur Hoyt
Jewel clerk
William Austin
Salesman
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
“Wally” (Roger Pryor) is a debt-ridden hack who is desperate to buy an engagement ring for his fiancée “Dorothy” (Leila Hans) but can’t even afford the cab fare. Then his editor fires him and he heads to the casino! He doesn’t do much better there so decides to tap up one of the wealthy gents who frequent the place. As luck would have it, he and one of his equally wealthy chums had just made a bet on whether it could be possible to spend $1,000 per minutes for twelve hours. That makes a grand total of $720k! They decide to give “Wally” a chance to earn a bonus of $10,000 if he can hit that target. He has to get receipts for everything and has to run all the purchases through the eagle-eyed “Benny” (Edward Brophy) but he still reckons this will be a synch. Now the last thing he was reporting on was a robbery and so when he starts off his spree with a string of very expensive pearls, the suspicious jewellers call the cops and they soon begin to suspect that his current, fully funded, extravaganza might be connected with that very crime. With the police on his trail and the clock ticking down, it soon proves quite a lot more difficult than he’d expected to get the job done - but can he make it? This is quite a fun hour of comedic excess and there’s an amiable chemistry between Pryor, Brophy, Hyams and the long-suffering cabbie “Pete” (Sterling Holloway) who just wants his fifteen bucks so he can take his taxi back to the garage and go home to bed! The scenarios work quite well and all are kept busy by a decently paced direction and by jokes that, though maybe a bit repetitious, still manage to avoid being too cringy and do point out just how we value money over all other things at our peril.
Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up being a part of a madcap chase involving a check for a large amount of lottery money, pursued by Gen. Diehard and Rhino's ex-wife Rowena, who was the cause of the rift between the two protagonists.
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
Comedian Katt Williams (aka Money Mike) showcases his laugh out loud comedic talents in his first ever HBO stand-up comedy DVD taped in front of a live audience. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Williams worked his way up the comedy club ladder before landing key television and film roles that displayed his flashy, sassy, streetwise style.
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.