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The Gambler and the Lady

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The Gambler and the Lady
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPatrick Jenkins
Sam Newfield
Written bySam Newfield
Produced byAnthony Hinds
StarringDane Clark
CinematographyWalter J. Harvey
Edited byMaurice Rootes
Music byIvor Slaney
Production
company
Distributed byLippert Pictures (USA)
Exclusive Films (UK)
Release date
  • 26 December 1952 (1952-12-26) (US)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Gambler and the Lady is a 1952 British crime film directed by Patrick Jenkins and Sam Newfield and starring Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron and Naomi Chance.[1] It was made by Hammer Films.[2]

Plot

An American gambler, Forster (Clark), aspires to find acceptance amongst the British nobility after falling in love with the aristocratic Lady Susan Willens (Chance), a prominent blueblood who has actually been pursuing him. To start a relationship with her, he dumps his girlfriend (Byron), a singer in one of his nightclubs who becomes murderously jealous. He must also deal with mobsters who try to take over his nightclubs. Swindled by an upper-class con-man (Ireland) into voluntarily selling out to the mobsters anyway all his valuable assets including the gambling-casino nightclubs, a racehorse and a boxer, in order to invest in a gold-mining scam that is eventually unmasked as a fraud.

He finds himself broke and in a gunfight with the mobsters, who have been deceived by a gang member with a grudge against him into thinking that they need to kill him. Wounded in the gunfight, he is about to make an escape from his mobster pursuers when his jilted girlfriend tries to kill him by hitting him with her car. He is knocked down by a glancing blow, and she flees the scene. At that point, Lady Willens and Forster's butler arrive on the scene and come to his aid. Forster looks up from the gutter and says, "Susan" with relief and gratitude. Susan tells the butler, "Let's bring him home."

Cast

References

  1. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/34237
  2. ^ "Terror Street (1954) - Montgomery Tully - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

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