***SPOILERS*** It's when brokerage house bookkeeper Ronald Grimes, E.G Marshall, got this strange letter from a Jay Cristani about who's to win the local election he more or less shrugged it off feeling it was a kind of prank on this Cristani's part. That's in Cristai giving Grimes this story that he has the powers to predict future events but only Grimes, because of some strange law of the universe, can benefit from his predictions. As it turned out the prediction that Cristani gave him in the upcoming mayoral election came true with highly favorite Mayor Twist losing to the underdog challenger Fred Hampton!
Thinking this was all just a fluke Cristani's prediction keep coming in by mail to Grimes and sure enough they all end up being accurate with Girimes making$700.00 beating on them! It's Grimes friend and fellow office worker George Benedict, Jack Klugman, who smells a rat in all this but can't convince his friend that he's somehow being taken for a ride by this Cristani guy! It's when Cristani starts to ask,by mail of course, Grimes for a little kick back or donation of his winnings that he provided him with that it becomes clear in Benedict's mind that he's being set up for the kill in the next and very probably last prediction that he'll give him.
***SPOILERS*** With Grimes by now so hooked on Cristani's accurate predictions he throws caution, and possibly his freedom,to the wind when he's given an offer or prediction that he simply can't refuse! That's leads to Grime embezzling his firm of $15,000.00 to invest in the stock market on a, as Cristani's wrote, sure thing! Well in the end Cristani made believes of everyone in his powers of prediction even the very skeptical and non believing George Benedict! But by then luckily for Benidict in finding out what kind of sham he was running Cristani was no longer around to do any predicating! His winning streak had just run out of steam and it was Ronald Grimes the person who fell for his sham who somehow, against the laws of averages, ended up getting all the marbles!
Thinking this was all just a fluke Cristani's prediction keep coming in by mail to Grimes and sure enough they all end up being accurate with Girimes making$700.00 beating on them! It's Grimes friend and fellow office worker George Benedict, Jack Klugman, who smells a rat in all this but can't convince his friend that he's somehow being taken for a ride by this Cristani guy! It's when Cristani starts to ask,by mail of course, Grimes for a little kick back or donation of his winnings that he provided him with that it becomes clear in Benedict's mind that he's being set up for the kill in the next and very probably last prediction that he'll give him.
***SPOILERS*** With Grimes by now so hooked on Cristani's accurate predictions he throws caution, and possibly his freedom,to the wind when he's given an offer or prediction that he simply can't refuse! That's leads to Grime embezzling his firm of $15,000.00 to invest in the stock market on a, as Cristani's wrote, sure thing! Well in the end Cristani made believes of everyone in his powers of prediction even the very skeptical and non believing George Benedict! But by then luckily for Benidict in finding out what kind of sham he was running Cristani was no longer around to do any predicating! His winning streak had just run out of steam and it was Ronald Grimes the person who fell for his sham who somehow, against the laws of averages, ended up getting all the marbles!