Looking for a specific movie (name unknown). Details within.

[Thomas Walker]

There's a subreddit called 'tipofmytongue' to help people find things.

 

I'm banned from that sub, for reasons I don't remember. I think I searched for something that had been searched before.

 

But right now, I'm searching for a movie that my father's trying to recall. He doesn't remember the name, or any of the actors.

 

Here's what he does remember:

 

* A man is caught up a wager, where he has to survive for a week, starting with only a newspaper.

* He talks a tailor into fashioning this newspaper into a suit, and starts 'advertising'.

* It's a black and white comedy

 

That's all he can recall. If anyone knows the movie I'm talking about, can you let me know?

[Dages]

Sullivan's travels ? 

[Thomas Walker]

8 minutes ago, Dages said:

Sullivan's travels ? 

 

Doesn't look like it. Sorry.

[Dages]

Do you have more details? Year? Actor? Look?

[Dages]

Here is Gemini's answer:

 

That sounds like the plot of the 1951 British comedy film The Man in the White Suit, starring Alec Guinness.

However, the main plot of The Man in the White Suit is about a man who invents a fabric that never gets dirty or wears out, and the resulting panic from the textile industry. It is a black and white comedy with Alec Guinness, and it does deal with fabric/suits, so it's possible some details got blended!

There is another movie, though it's not black and white, called The Million Pound Note (1954, also known as Man with a Million), starring Gregory Peck, where a man is involved in a wager and given an uncashable one-million-pound banknote to survive for a month.

Given your specific details about the newspaper suit and advertising, I strongly suspect you might be thinking of a very famous sequence from the film The Million Pound Note (or Man with a Million) which is a similar "wager" film, even though the newspaper suit detail might not be exactly right or might come from another source.

[Thomas Walker]

7 minutes ago, Dages said:

There is another movie, though it's not black and white, called The Million Pound Note (1954, also known as Man with a Million), starring Gregory Peck, where a man is involved in a wager and given an uncashable one-million-pound banknote to survive for a month.

Given your specific details about the newspaper suit and advertising, I strongly suspect you might be thinking of a very famous sequence from the film The Million Pound Note (or Man with a Million) which is a similar "wager" film, even though the newspaper suit detail might not be exactly right or might come from another source.

 

Afraid that's not the one either; but as it happens, we just finished watching that one ten minutes ago. It was the similarity that got my dad onto this topic.

[Dolce vita]

Nothing Sacred (1937)
William A. Wellman ?

 

 

[Old Guy]

Watch on Fandango for three bucks.    https://athome.fandango.com/content/browse/details/Nothing-Sacred/266838?cmp=rt_where_to_watch

[Parale]

6 minutes ago, Old Guy said:

Watch on Fandango for three bucks.    https://athome.fandango.com/content/browse/details/Nothing-Sacred/266838?cmp=rt_where_to_watch

 

Or watch on youtube