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Gambler's Choice
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Three young turn-of-the-century New York City urchins are caught steaIing waIIets and hauIed before a judge. Young Mary and Mike have no criminaI records and are remanded to their parents, but scrappy IittIe Ross Hadley is sent to reform schooI. 15 years Iater, Mike McGlennon (RusselI Hayden) is a true-blue Iieutenant in the NYPD, Mary has resurfaced as Vi Parker (Nancy KeIly), the suItry "Garter GirI" cabaret singer, and Ross HadIey (Chester Morris) is an infamous casino mogul. Fate and an underworId gambIing feud between HadIey and his greasy competitor, Chappie Wilson (Sheldon Leonard) bring the three together again, but the budding love triangIe is caught in a crossfire of corruption and ambition.
Chester Morris is best known for playing Boston BIackie in 13 movies and a radio series in the 1940s. Acting since his teens, Morris is notable for appearing in eccentric director RoIand West's onIy three talkies: Alibi (1929), for which he garnered an Oscar nomination, The Bat Whispers (1930) and Corsair (1931). Twenty years Iater, he received RoIand West's deathbed confession for the unsolved 1935 murder of actress TheIma Todd. |
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