A Ticket in Tatts is a 1934 musical comedy film starring popular stage comedian George Wallace as an accident-prone stablehand.
Gangsters working for the villainous Coyle are determined to kidnap Hotspur but George figures it out and one is captured.
Dorothy Fleming is in love with author Harvey Walls, but is pursued by Brian Winters, the owner of rival horse Surefoot.
Wallace said the story was based on a play of his, High Heels, which was inspired by the attack on Phar Lap prior to the Melbourne Cup; he rewrote it as a novel.
[11][12][13][14][15] Filming stopped briefly in October so Wallace could appear in a revue and Thring could work on Sheepmates.
In spile of some really finished acting, the humor- is too much of the slapstick variety, and the action degenerates at times into mere buffoonery."
But there is also a story about how Thelma Scott wagers with Frank Harvey that if Hotspur wins the Cup she will marry him and if it doesn’t she won’t, or the other way about This part of the yarn is so sketchily dealt with that it becomes boresome.
Wallace then made two films for Cinesound which followed the story telling formula of A Ticket in Tatts: "George is given a simple labourer's job... Quite innocently is fired...