Although little of Red Hollywood's socialanalysis seems to have been colored by laughs, in Mr. Lucky, Cary Grant plays JoeAdams, a full-time gambler, schemer, and draft dodger who battles wits withDorothy Bryant (Laraine Day), an heiress high up in wartime charity efforts. Heintroduces her to rhyming slang, which evidently originated among Englishvagabonds as a means of talking secretly in public, but wants her to introducehim to straight-talking high society money. "Next to Casablanca, the classicwartime conversion film°.As a romantic comedy, it has an unexpectedly hard edgeand the most fragile of happy endings; class differences between the grifter andthe socialite are emphasized, not underplayed." (TA, NB) One of theHollywood Ten, writer-producer Adrian Scott had already produced Crossfire whenhe was blacklisted. He wrote for TV through a front, and for a period, emigratedto England.