Headlines Of The Century : Sweep Winners Overwhelmed (1960)

The film discusses the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, a horse race lottery that raises millions of dollars for medical charities. The lottery is illegal in America, but a quarter of the tickets are still sold in the country. The film shows the excitement and joy experienced by the lucky winners, who suddenly find themselves fabulously wealthy. However, not everyone is a winner, and some people have been buying tickets for years without any success. Keywords Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, horse race lottery, medical charities, illegal lottery, rags to riches stories, excitement, joy, winners, losers.