The Jackpot is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang, with James Stewart and Barbara Hale in the lead roles.

The screenplay was based on a John McNulty article, "The Jackpot", in The New Yorker (February 19, 1949), about the true experiences of James P. Caffrey of Wakefield, Rhode Island who won $24,000 worth of merchandise on August 28, 1948, from the CBS radio quiz program, Sing It Again.

[5] Bill Lawrence, employed at a department store in the Midwestern United States, supports a wife and two kids on an annual salary of $7,500.

Answering a phone call, he wins $24,000 worth of merchandise from a radio quiz program and is overwhelmed by prizes which range from the useful to the absurd, including a side of beef, 7,500 cans of soup, 1,000 fruit trees, a Palomino pony, a portable swimming pool, a diamond ring, a French maid, an interior decorator, and portrait painter Hilda Jones.

The film was released to DVD via the manufacture on demand (MOD) 20th Century Fox Cinema Archives on December 6, 2012.