Burt (Randy West, then new to the business) is going through a rough patch and has to deal with a strange and mysterious girlfriend and a friend, Ron, who looks down on him. His financial situation suddenly changes when, due to a bank error, he finds himself with $300,000 in his account. Before anyone notices, he transfers the money to a Swiss account and sets off to explore Europe alone. Unfortunately, along the way, the naive Burt falls into all sorts of traps and scams, from a Parisian hotel waiter (a Ron Jeremy as entertaining as ever) to the father of a German peasant woman he's just seduced in the barn. Broke and abandoned by fate, our hero eventually runs into an American traveling tourist who accompanies him to the curious and redundant end of his adventure.

Two movies for the price of one, because "That Lucky Stiff" was filmed at the same time as "Bon Appétit" (1980), making the most of the same European locations and the travel costs the crew had to incur to transport the entire cast and crew. Ultimately, the film shows a more relaxed and easygoing side of the late Chuck Vincent. It was never conceived as the improvised B-side of a blockbuster, but turned out to be, as expected, much funnier than the prestigious project it was supposedly complementing. The best part is Ron's scene in the massage parlor, with the greedy assistants Samantha Fox and Candida Royalle, who charge him generously for every extra service they offer. A very funny romp.