《Lady Luck (1946)》Storyline
In gambling halls, delayingTen thousand cattle straying,...Ten thousand cattle straying.To one of his poker playing partners, a professional gambler he calls Mr.Gambler (Earle Foxe), Wyatt relates his love of poker:Sir, I really love poker.Every hand a different problem.Got to do a little figurin"" here.What would I do if I was in your boots Mr.Gambler? (Chihuahua signals his opponent about the cards Wyatt holds.) You drew three cards and I stood pat and yet you raised me.Now the question is, what should I do? (Wyatt looks up at Chihuahua behind him.) Yeah, mighty interestin"" game, poker.Game of chance.Sensing that Chihuahua has been "increasing the odds" against him, he drags her outside and threatens her, mistaking her for an Apache Indian:Wyatt: If I catch you doin"" that again, I""ll run ya back to the Apache reservation where you belong.He was living two years later in Goa, India with German girlfriend Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente); he was recording his recollections in a journal to help him piece together his past (later discovered to be a crucial assassination carried out in a Berlin hotel room)...Mary interrupts George by picking up a rock (unnoticed at first by self-centered George) and silently makes a wish of her own.Christopher Reeve was paid a salary of $250,000, plus $25,000 a week -- it was one of the highest salaries paid to an unknown actor for a major feature film.a distant view of Manhattan""s eastern skyline at dawn, showing the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building [Note: The film ended with a book-ending view of Manhattan at sunset]a view of Long Island City from Manhattan""s East Sidehigh-rise buildingsthe neon "PARKING" (static) and "MANHATTAN" (blinking) signs (positioned vertically on the side of buildings)ROMANTIC""Chapter One.