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Name that Movie

I remember about 20 years ago watching an old black and white film about a formal jacket that had powers which either worked good for you if you were good in your heart or brought you misfortune if you were bad when it was worn...at the end of the movie,a gangster bought it in a second hand store,then robbed a bank...he got away with it,but when he was escaping in an airplane,the plane was having trouble,he got dumped out of it with the money and no parachute...the money rained down on a poor black farmer working his field by hand and horse...the farmer put on the jacket,went and bought a tractor then gave the rest of the money to his church...fades to black...I have searched for years for the title...anyone able to help me?
 
Nitro It rings a bell. That sounds like a Twilight Zone episode or perhaps Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I'll have to research that, because I have a lot of the AH Presents on DVD.
 
Sportster said:
Nitro It rings a bell. That sounds like a Twilight Zone episode or perhaps Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I'll have to research that, because I have a lot of the AH Presents on DVD.
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actually it was a feature length movie on an all oldies movie channel that no longer exists

it wasn't a Hitchcock film either
 
Nitro said:
actually it was a feature length movie on an all oldies movie channel that no longer exists

it wasn't a Hitchcock film either
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Now I'm really intrigued. I wish there was a site that you could enter certain things about a movie and it would bring up possible answers, sort of like that song lyrics site.
 
Nitro said:
I remember about 20 years ago watching an old black and white film about a formal jacket that had powers which either worked good for you if you were good in your heart or brought you misfortune if you were bad when it was worn...at the end of the movie,a gangster bought it in a second hand store,then robbed a bank...he got away with it,but when he was escaping in an airplane,the plane was having trouble,he got dumped out of it with the money and no parachute...the money rained down on a poor black farmer working his field by hand and horse...the farmer put on the jacket,went and bought a tractor then gave the rest of the money to his church...fades to black...I have searched for years for the title...anyone able to help me?
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You seem to have misremembered some things but I believe the film you are talking about is Tales of Manhattan (1942), the stories follow a black formal tailcoat as it goes from owner to owner, in five otherwise unconnected stories.

Tales of Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A fifth story involves a thief (J. Carrol Naish) stealing the coat from a second-hand store and then committing a robbery at an illegal casino where no one is admitted unless wearing evening dress. When he attempts to escape by plane in an open cockpit, the jacket catches fire from sparks from the engine with a panicked Naish removing his burning jacket with the money still in the pockets and throwing it out of the plane. A poor African-American couple (Paul Robeson and Ethel Waters) in a deep South shanty community finds the jacket along with over $40,000.
 
Sylar said:
You seem to have misremembered some things but I believe the film you are talking about is Tales of Manhattan (1942), the stories follow a black formal tailcoat as it goes from owner to owner, in five otherwise unconnected stories.

Tales of Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A fifth story involves a thief (J. Carrol Naish) stealing the coat from a second-hand store and then committing a robbery at an illegal casino where no one is admitted unless wearing evening dress. When he attempts to escape by plane in an open cockpit, the jacket catches fire from sparks from the engine with a panicked Naish removing his burning jacket with the money still in the pockets and throwing it out of the plane. A poor African-American couple (Paul Robeson and Ethel Waters) in a deep South shanty community finds the jacket along with over $40,000.
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Yes! you hit it perfect...Thank you very much!
 
Sportster said:
Cool!!! I'm glad we got that mystery solved. I recall the movie myslef. It was sort of like Pulp Fiction with the various stories overlapping into one:

I am downloading the movie now to view it again,but now have a title to purchase it which makes it extra cool :cool:
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