YEAR: 1940
DIRECTOR: Raoul Walsh
PINBALL MODEL(S): The center photo is a modified 'Ricochet' machine (1937, Stoner Mfg.), with point values painted directly on the playfield. I am not able to determine the models of the pins being played in the other shots.
GAME LOCATION: Roadside diner
NOTES: These screencaps come from two different scenes in film—both set in a restaurant—but each scene features the same player. We know that the pin-table in each scene is different because the support legs for the two machines are different (as opposed to the same machine being painted with different cabinet art on both sides in the interest of set-design efficiency).
Pinball is used comedically in this story (a perpetually behind-schedule truck driver keeps winning play-credits and becomes further delayed), but the film alludes to the gambling dimension of the game as well.
