The story of the fortunes and misfortunes of winners in the Calcutta Sweepstakes, "Devil's Lottery, set in a quite-convincingly evoked England, is an offbeat little romantic melodrama with some genuine surprises. One of them is too good to keep as a surprise, and all those of you who suffered through Beryl Mercer's crying and whining in mother roles throughout the '30s can rejoice and mark up a milestone. Here she whines once again, but gets her comeuppance by being locked up by her son and suffocating to death...." --W.K.E.