Based on a true story, The Luckiest Man in America is set in May 1984, when an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio (Paul Walter Hauser) steps onto the game show Press Your Luck harboring a big secret: the key to endless amounts of money. His winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.
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00:00From Television City in Hollywood, it's time to press your luck.
00:11I just came off a three-day trek from my hometown in Ohio.
00:16And I drive an ice cream truck.
00:19I love the show. I've probably seen it rips.
00:22I like the guy.
00:23Stories like those are why America loves game shows.
00:25Let's meet our three contestants vying for the big bucks.
00:31Big bucks.
00:33Now the big board is filled with money, but be careful of the whammies because they'll take you right back down to zero.
00:40Let's see those big bucks.
00:43Stop!
00:44$4,000 and a spin.
00:45I'm going to keep going.
00:47Stop!
00:48$16,000.
00:49You're not serious?
00:50Pass, man.
00:52Mathematicians are giving me six to one odds.
00:54What's wrong with this guy?
00:55Keep going.
00:56He's going to go.
00:58Stop!
00:59$24,000.
01:01Again!
01:02We have a problem. Somebody didn't vet this guy.
01:09He's not playing the game right.
01:11We've got to scare him.
01:12It would be a real pity if he got held up here in L.A.
01:17It's a lot of money. Do you want to spend and risk losing it all?
01:22I said again.
01:24I tried to warn him.
01:29Let's find out who this guy is.
01:33Are you doing something wrong?
01:39Max, we're closing a big deal right now.
01:41That's going to change everything.
01:45I don't know what to tell you.
01:46That's where you're going to roll for this.
01:48Do I know you from somewhere?
01:50Not America's Most Wanted, right?
01:52Do you think that he's working alone?
01:53I have no idea.
01:55All part of the game, right?
01:56You just made more than anyone in the history of game shows.
02:03Luck is just a good excuse to do nothing and then hope that an opportunity comes a knocking.