Review of The Jackpot

A red flag came up early on when Jimmy Stewart starts of his scenes with that look of a deer caught in headlights expression. During the early important radio program call-in scene poor Jimmy acts as if there is always a non-hack third party (like a REAL director like Hitchcock or John Ford) giving him and Barbara Hale some semblance of direction just out of the camera's range. He keeps glancing off-camera sideways and at NO ONE. Poor Jimmy, what studio contract obligations did he have to meet to get dragged into this celluloid time-waster? Natalie Wood just phones her performance in (and she was only like ten) with an expression on how face like she wants to really grow up so she can stop playing a precocious child, enough said.....and speaking of laughing, what few laughs there are supposed to be ... aren't there. I fell asleep. This movie plays like some 50's "Father Know Best" episode.