Million Dollar Weekend (1948)

★★★★★ · Good flick worth watching! · Dr Feel Rotten · 2010-12-16

An embezzler, a blackmailer and his victim come together on a flight to Hawaii. One man steals a million bucks from his company and hightails it to Shanghai, but along the way he runs into a beautiful woman who is getting blackmailed by someone else on the plane and she begs the thief to pretend to know her. Meanwhile once at the layover stop in Hawaii the blackmailer rummages through the thief’s hotel room and finds the loot then decides to ditch the blackmail scheme in favor of an instant million bucks. To bad for the blackmailer the thief wants his million bucks back.. I recommend this to…

★★★ · Should be titled "Que Sera, Sera." · rclo · 2011-04-07

To say Gene Raymond's acting in this film is understated is an understatement. Francis Lederer is convincingly sleazy. The woman is overwhelmingly luscious! I found the movie entertaining, but the script was unbelievable in the way the characters seemingly let fate decide their fortune. If one were to steal $1M, I would think that person would be just a little nervous and apt to keep an eye on the money. Not this guy; he "telegraphs" his booty to his adversary, then leaves it virtually unprotected. Then, when he loses it, he searches as though he is looking for his overcoat. The adversary…