CBSRMT Episode Information
Title:
The Instant Millionaires
Plot:
Moral qualms notwithstanding, three warehouse labourers decide to share a huge stash of three million dollars that find by accident. But it fails to bring them contentment. What's more, the real felon owner might be coming after them any time!
Air Dates:
First Run - March 9, 1978
Repeat - August 8, 1978
2 Responses to Episode 0795
Three furniture movers (including writer Ian Martin) working in a warehouse discover an old trunk containing various items...and $3 million. Ralph Bell and Evie Juster have supporting roles.
Amanda Paige, 2012-12-13 10:22:55
This one sort of picks up where "The Laughing Maiden" concept might have left off. An irish guy (Robert Calaban) and a german/jewish guy (I forget the actor, who did a good job), who work as movers and warehouseman at an auction/storage house, are almost killed by stuff falling out of a storage bin. Their italian boss (played by Ian Martin) comes in as they're cleaning up. The stuff in the bin is due for auction...the owner is deceased and the merchandise that was in storage will be put up for sale to the highest bidder. A trunk in the storage pin is damaged and can be opened. The list they go by says the trunk only contains books and stuff. The irish guy can't resist looking inside and is stunned. $3 million dollars in cold hard cash is inside beneath the books. The irish guy (a gambler) thinks he can live like a high rolling king with 1/3 of this. The italian thinks he can live like a capo (as in "mob boss" if I recall the translation). The german guy, who only would love to own a bakery again like he did before the Nazis took it over and made him wear a yellow star of David, warns them that when you find money in hard currency like this out of nowhere, chances are it was capo-style criminal business that obtained it. Nonetheless, the other two insist that they all three split the dough, and essentially threaten to kill the German guy if he doesn't go along. Remember the movie "Godfather II", and the well done scenes in the middle of the movie where Michael Corleone and his henchmen/family are visiting Havana casinos right on the eve of Castro's takeover? Well, turns out that same night a mob casino worker absconded with (drum roll) $3 million from a casino just ahead of Fidel's strongmen. He packed it in a steamer trunk with his compadres ostensibly to get it out of the country into their waitinghands, but once the trunk made American landfall it disappeared. He was killed in retaliation later on but the money was never found. Well, a construction magnate / mafioso (played by Ralph Bell) who had a sizeable connection to the Cuban casino and who's currently shopping the auctions to furnish his mistresse's love pad, sees the trunk he helped pack the money in and is convinced it's in there. He buys it and is dismayed by the empty trunk. Takes one to know one, however, and he's sure he knows that someone at the auction house absconded with the moolah. Sure enough, he learns three guys were working at the place and all quit at the same time six months ago. So, he starts to track all three workers down to find what they did with the cash. And what he finds all three times is...well, this was an interesting RMT with a slightly disappointing ending, but I'd recommend it for a listen.
I. Pondexter, 2013-01-17 09:33:23
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