Lucky Number Slevin, renamed for the German/USA DVDs as Lucky # Slevin (and also known as The Wrong Man in Australia), is a 2006 crime thriller film written by Jason Smilovic, directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci, and Lucy Liu. Set in New York City, the plot focuses on the paths of Slevin Kelevra (Hartnett), Lindsey (Liu), two feuding crime lords known as The Boss (Freeman) and The Rabbi (Kingsley), and a mysterious hitman known as Mr. Goodkat (Willis).
During the film's opening credits, two bookies are separately ambushed and murdered, their ledgers stolen from their bodies by their unseen killers. Elsewhere, a young black man walks out of a downtown building and is shot and killed by a sniper.
In a bus terminal, a young man is approached by a man in a wheelchair named Goodkat (Bruce Willis), who tells the story of Max and the Kansas City Shuffle. Two decades earlier, Max borrowed money and bet on a fixed horse race. When the mob found out that word had gotten out about the fix, they killed the horse before it reached the finish line, then killed Max for being unable to pay back the loan. To further send a message, they also ordered his wife and his twelve-year-old son Henry killed as well. Goodkat concludes the story, revealing that the Kansas City Shuffle is when "they look left and you go right" and promptly stands up and snaps the young man's neck. He leaves the terminal with the body in the back of a truck.
Golden Earring
Lucky Number
Lucky numbers, comin'my way
Super vision, mile away
It's one for alone and two for me and you
And two and three have been singing
Is it true that heaven is next door
Just about three steps climbing
We all know what four stamps are for
With you in time swamping partners
Nothing to jive, just give me five
Let's drown in holy water
Lucky numbers, lottery
Super vision, wait for me
Six and stones, back my loans
And pay the debts I carry
Save that seven just for me
I find it failed me rarely
Roll an eight on wheels of faith
Along the course of a dead man's knee
Bill me nine, I won't say no
I like a Laffy Daffy
Refrain
Place the bet, spin roulette, last time for Bingo
Cash a cheque, stick out your neck, play joker Tango
Lend your ears, take a pair of wheels. Lucky number Lingo
And when you loose, you curse the fortune game
Blame the loss on dames and dames
Find yourself where you began
Worshipping your number one
Refrain
Place the bet, spin roulette, last time for Bingo
Cash a cheque, stick out your neck, play joker Tango
Lend your ears, take a pair of wheels. Lucky number Lingo
Lucky numbers, last a day
Super vision, now obey
Number ten won't listen at all
Search for getting even
Hear the call, help me fall
Ruther on eleven
Just leave twelve to itself
Welcome Mister Mean
To this hotel, a special warm
Talkin'about thirteen
Place the bet, spin roulette, last time for Bingo
Cash a cheque, stick out your neck, play joker Tango
Lend your ears, take a pair of wheels. Lucky number Lingo
And when you loose, you curse the fortune game
Blame the loss on dames and dames
Find yourself where you began
Worshipping your number one
Place the bet, spin roulette, last time for Bingo
Cash a cheque, stick out your neck, play joker Tango
Feel's like a heist when you wake me up
Some clothes are thrown then I'm pushed down a corridor
On front door step for a last time
I don't look back as we tearaway
The scene is set for another day
We will go past your marker then go darker
Oh I got myself a lucky number
Oh myself, my sisters and my brothers
What happened next he would never say
The tables turned and he did escape
He went south into Spain and lived his days there
But when news came that he passed away
You could not find him in his grave
He had gone into dark night, endless walking
Oh I got myself a lucky number
Oh myself, my sisters and my brothers
I think if you look that is seems though the man has escaped
He has got away and he wont come back for many year
I think if you check that it seems that you made a mistake
He has got away and he wont come back for long long year
(Guitar Solo)
Oh I got myself a lucky number
Oh myself, my sisters and my brothers
Oh I got myself that lucky number
Udy, udy, udy, udy etc...
I never used to cry 'cause I was all alone
For me, myself and I is all I've ever known
I never felt the need to have a hand to hold
In everything I do I take complete control
That's where I'm coming from
My Lucky Number's one
I've everthing I need to keep me satisfied
There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
I'm having so much fun
My Lucky Number's one
Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!
Ay ay ay ay ay...
I now detect an alien vibration here
There's something in the air besides the atmosphere
The object of the action is becoming clear
An imminent attack upon my heart I fear
The evidence is strong
My Lucky Number's wrong
Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!
Something tells me my Lucky Number's gonna be changing
soon
Something tells me my Lucky Number's gonna be
You certainly do have a strange effect on me
I never thought that I could feel the way I feel
There's something in your eyes gives me a wild idea
I never want to be apart from you my dear
I guess it must be true
My Lucky Number's two
This rearrangement suits me now I must confess
The number one was dull and number two is best
I wanna stay with you
My Lucky Number's two
Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!
Number... Number...
You dial the lucky number when you're feeling uptight, when you're bored on a Sunday, and every Friday night. You dial the lucky number 'cos life is such a fight - they're gonna bring it over and make it all seem alright.
You've got a lucky number, for every time you need something to numb ya: you get that nagging hunger, that's when you dial your lucky number.
(CHORUS)
You dial the lucky number, you want that basement kiss; when you were two years younger, you wouldn't have dreamt of this. You're getting pins and needles, they've got you on the boil - all wrapped up in the glamour of aluminium foil.
(CHORUS 2)
Go to sleep, all your dreams are sweet, keep the world at bay 'til you wake up in the morning...