Saturday's Millions (1933) DVD-R

Starring Robert Young, Andy Devine, Leila Hyams, Johnny Mack Brown, Mary Carlisle, Grant
Mitchell, Alan Ladd
Directed by Edward Sedgwick

Print: black/white
Runtime: 77 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The
hardworking young man is simply using the sport as a means to help him pay for school,
and doesn't consider it any different from the laundry service he runs in his spare time.
Rather than stroking his ego, the constant onslaught of football fanatics and sports
reporters disgust Jim (Young) to the extent that his football coach (Joe Sawyer) tells old
football chums—Jim's father Ezra (Grant Mitchell) and the father of Jim's girlfriend—about
the star player's erratic behavior. The men, being passionate football fans themselves, are
saddened by Jim's lackluster attitude towards the game. Convinced that people only
respect him because of his skills on the field, Jim distances himself from Joan (Leila
Hyams), his girlfriend, and seeks out a woman he believes knows nothing about football or
his role in it. To his surprise, however, she not only knows of his career, but blackmails him
to throw the game. When he refuses, her husband breaks Jim's hand. Suddenly inspired,
Jim refuses to let the coach know about his condition and heroically takes to the field with a
new perspective. Regardless of whether the big game is one or lost, Jim realizes that his
teammates, being true friends after all, would rather lose with him than win without him.