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- Ex drug dealer Lucky goes straight after prison. He's a street vendor in NYC. An old friend invites him to a strip club but uses him as muscle in a drug deal. When cops come, he leaves with the money and stripper.
- A gritty love story about a charismatic but down-on-his-luck troubadour living out of cheap motels and making bad decisions.
- Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
- The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the other. Filmed as a showcase of the Japanese boy band V6 (to be followed by another by the director), Hard Luck Hero has food, drink, cars, kickboxing, debt, shooting, theft, blackmail and music.
- After breaking a mirror, a writer is convinced he will have seven years' bad luck. This complicates his romantic aspirations.
- A ringside seat to the most competitive era of heavyweight history with the Bellflower Bomber, made famous for his battles with Frazier and Ali.
- 88 days before his scheduled release from a state mental hospital Lucky O'Donnell returned home on the journey of a lifetime.
- A hardened hitman agrees to one last job for his boss, but quickly learns that he is crossed up in a deadly series of events.
- A young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery.
- This is the story of New Jersey rock band Rye Coalition, aka The Hard Luck Five.
- Bill Jones is in arrears with Mrs. Swatt, his landlady, and she tells him to produce the money or leave. He borrows ten dollars from his next door neighbor, Tom. Bill sees the landlady enter with a stunning-looking girl and in order to make a hit helps himself to Tom's new suit of clothes. He manages to meet the young lady as she is leaving the house and invites her to luncheon. When he comes to pay for it, he discovers that he left the money in his own pockets. In the meantime, Mrs. Swatt, in a rage at not receiving her rent, throws Bill's clothes out the window and they are picked up by a tramp. Bill comes back for the money, finds his clothes gone and the landlady hales him to the police station. The girl is also taken to the station and a general mix-up ensues, which is settled by the appearance on the scene of the tramp with Bill's clothes and the ten-dollar bill.
- A documentary about Daffy Duck.
- The landlady threatens to oust John unless he pays his room rent. So John goes out to locate some coin. He finds a five dollar bill but the man who lost it rushes back and snatches it away. Then John is offered the job of carrying a sign advertising free meals at the lunch room. This offer is made by Mike, who hears a grievance against the lunch room. But John is captured as the culprit and punished. In despair of ever obtaining money, John determines to commit suicide. He tries it by cutting his throat, by sitting on a keg of powder, by jumping off the roof of a high building, and finally by drowning. But each time he is rescued before the end comes. At length he sees a runaway team coming down the street, drawing a carriage filled with horrified women. He stops the team and is rewarded. Then he dines sumptuously and returns to pay his rent.
- An old settler's daughter, Jessie, is the belle of Sycamore Dale. As she comes from the house, Frank whistles for her from one side and Jim from the other, as neither dares to go to the house, having been warned by father. Selecting a spot between her two suitors, Jessie waits for them to appear and then confides to them that the one who reaches the tree first shall have her hand. Instead of allowing Jim to try, she pulls his sleeve as he is getting ready and together they run off, leaving poor Frank to meet the old settler, who has also heard the whistling. The old man soon finds the lovers and marches Miss Jessie into the house, putting the hired man, Tom, to guard her and telling Big Bill to keep himself in readiness to boot either of her suitors off the place. At last Jessie manages to get a note off to Jim, reading: "Dear Boy: Meet me on the bridge at 3 o'clock this afternoon and we will elope. Jessie." Father, however, gets the note, but in order to catch the culprit, he allows it to be delivered. Fortunately, Tom tells Jim of the settler's intentions, so Jim sends the note on to his rival, who promptly appears with horse and buggy at the appointed time and, while Frank is having a few very unhappy moments with the old man, Jim and Jessie ride away in his buggy to the minister's. Here father, Big Bill and Frank soon appear, for the old settler has held up an automobile and forced the driver to take them to the minister's after the eloping couple. The young couple were too quick for them, however, for while they enter the front entrance of the house, the minister, Jim and Jessie hurry out of the back door, jump into the automobile, and there the minister finishes the ceremony, while Frank drives sadly away in his buggy, leaving Big Bill and father to foot it home.
- When a barista is stuck alone on the graveyard shift while his wife is in labor, a straitlaced college student walks into his coffee shop, in dire need of some free internet. What starts as a disagreement about the volume of the shop's music turns into a night of the two antagonizing each other over their opposing world views.
- Whiffles, being in straightened circumstances, decides to raise a little money. Just how he does it, forms a film that is guaranteed to raise the risibility of every spectator.
- A burglar enters the house of a wealthy couple in their absence, and in looking for his spoils, he manages to smash up pretty nearly everything in the house. The owners return, however, while he is at work and each produces a revolver. They force him to repair everything he has broken. This, of course, is trick photography and it is of the best kind.
- Twin tarot card readers argue at a bar about destiny verses free will and the nature of their fortune telling business. Rather than settling their argument in words, they find an unsuspecting patron to test their opposing theories on.
- Convicted of a crime which he did not commit, Arthur Finley serves a long term in prison. He is released and starts out in life with the terrible handicap of being an ex-convict. It seems almost impossible for him to get employment, and he is about to give up in despair when he meets the detective who helped to fasten the crime upon him for which he was wrongfully convicted. He makes a firm friend of the detective, who lends him money and uses his influence to get him a new start. He secures a good position and wins the love of the daughter of his employer. Life is at last worth living, and the fates seem to smile upon him when a crime is committed at his very door. His past record as a convict places him under suspicion and circumstantial evidence points to his guilt. But his detective friend believes in his innocence and bends every energy toward proving him guiltless. Through various methods used by scientific detectives, including thumb prints, the real offender is apprehended and the hard luck that has followed Arthur Finley changes to good fortune and prosperity.
- A bearded stranger offers Mutt and Jeff $500 to steal the "Poipers" from a certain house. Mutt decides that the way to put it over is to disguise as Santa and go down the chimney. After considerable stuffing with pillows, he gets the right make-up, and then after some trouble in getting on the roof, which Jeff shares, Mutt gets stuck in the chimney, and the house owner builds a fire. Mutt finally falls through and takes a beating - then the bearded stranger tells them it was the wrong house.
- Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. Laugh out loud in the eighth installment in Jeff Kinney's hit series.
- Documentary about the Buster Keaton short Hard Luck (1921).
- Dobbs. an unfortunate individual out of work and down on his luck, while wandering in the park one day, spies a man seated on a bench scrutinizing a piece of paper he holds in his hands. Dobbs' curiosity being aroused, he steps nearer and almost jumps with agitation on recognizing that it is nothing less than a thousand franc note that the stranger is examining so closely. With the thought of all he could do if only once possessed of such wealth running through his brain. Friend Dobbs, acting on the impulse of the moment, snatches the bill from the astonished stranger's hand and takes to his heels. In his haste to get away with the precious bit of paper he just escapes being run over by a cab, collides with a baby carriage and knocks a billposter head over heels into a pushcart filled with oranges. Oblivious, however, to everything in his desire to react a secluded spot with his ill-gotten treasure, be finishes by falling into a sewer which is connected with the Seine. Two policemen standing on the bank of the river hear all at once the most heartrending shrieks, and seeing the man (none other than our friend with the banknote) floundering around helpless in the water, they hasten to throw him a rope and drag him to the shore. But on seeing himself between two officers the unfortunate hastens to break loose and does not stop running until he reaches his room, where he locks himself in and proceeds to examine his treasure which has caused him so much trouble. Horrors! Could anything be more terrible? On looking at the other side of the bill, our friend reads the words printed in large letter "Nonpareil Safe Deposit Vaults, Fireproof and Burglarproof."
- Ron Hawkins (Lowest of The Low) goes not for a solo act with backup but a real band so good he ends up recording a double album with them. Was this a risky move in today's music climate of iTunes and singles ? Luck's Hard is an intimate look at the formation of a band and the recording of an album. A band member's near fatal illness doesn't stop them and playing sold out shows keeps them moving. Success is desired, but creating and playing music keeps them...creating and playing music.
- A portrait of Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson --black harmonica player, singer, and comedian who made his living "busking" on the street and performing in patent-medicine shows touring southern towns. Footage includes excerpts from one of his last medicine shows, videotaped at a county fair in 1972, and material filmed near his home in South Carolina in 1975.
- A good-natured cowboy is mistaken for a rustler and given the choice of death or marrying the disliked lady boss.
- Killer Dwarfs perform in the music video "Hard Luck Town" from the album "Method to the Madness" recorded for Epic Records. The music video opens with a shot of Russ Graham screaming near train tracks. The band performs on stage with a movie screen behind them featuring trains.
- Kiss performs in the music video "Hard Luck Woman" from the album "Rock and Roll Over" recorded for Casablanca Records. The music video features the band performing on a darkened stage with smoke and the bands name illuminated in the background. Peter Criss sings as the band plays.
- Music video for Men at Work's "Hard Luck Story".
- Link and Evie Tabor have been struggling, working their ranch, ever since Link was injured in a rodeo mishap and confined to a wheel chair. But if that wasn't hard enough, now the Tabors are being threatened by outlaws.
- While Casey is away on a fishing trip, his friend Earl Bonner is put in charge of the Cannonball Express, during which time the train is robbed twice. Casey remains loyal to his friend and sets out to try and prove his innocence.
- Jim's cousin Leo visits so he can look for a job in Springfield. Leo is known as Hard Luck Leo. Despite job and apartment leads from the family, it seems nothing works out. Betty soon realizes Leo does not want anything to work out.
- Hard-Luck Henry Haggen comes to Dodge City to persuade his cousin Festus to return home on an important mission. Festus, as the wisest of the Haggens, is to act as Solomon and divide a chest of Confederate gold pieces among the Haggen clan. Henry's constant mishaps thwart Festus's efforts in one of the funniest episodes of the series.
- Ed places a fake bounty for her own father, in hopes Jet and Spike will lead her to him. They do, and despite a joyous reunion, her father immediately abandons her to pursue his work. Ed and Ein decide to leave the group.
- 1970–197730m8.1 (284)TV EpisodeMary is forced to work not only on Christmas Day but Christmas Eve, too.
- The Hard Luck Insurance Company claims that it will insure a rancher for the rest of his life for just one payment. Roy suspects the company is a racket, and sets out to investigate.
- While on a break from her job at a department store as one of Santa's helpers, Ann tells Donald about a Christmas she spent with one of her students while she was a teacher at a boarding school. A little boy name Tommy, who has always spent Christmas in hotels, is stuck at the school while his parents finish working on a movie. Since she's isn't allowed to bring him home with her, Ann stays at the school with him to give him his first happy Christmas.