Starring Bruce Bennett, Joan Fontaine, Reed Howes, Monte Blue, Kenneth Harlan

Directed by Lynn Shores



Print: black/white

Runtime: 68 min.

Genre: drama

Print Quality: B



Puritan Pictures seldom turned out a film that looked most expensive than it really was. The

studio's Million to One appears to have been made on a budget of eight dollars and a box

lunch, but that doesn't lessen its entertainment value one bit. Herman Brix (later known as

Bruce Bennett) stars as Johnny Kent, a hot-shot Olympic athlete who lets success go to his

head. After a dizzying cycle of wine, women and song, Johnny is no good to anyone, least of

all himself. He wises up in time to qualify for a decathlon competition with his arch-rival Hale

(Reed Howes). Oldtimers Monte Blue and Kenneth Harlan play key supporting roles, while

the ingenue is a pretty but antiseptic newcomer named Joan Burfield. By the time Million to

One made it to New York (nearly three years after it was made), Ms. Burfield was billing

herself as Joan Fontaine.