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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 stealing walIets and hauled before a judge. Young Mary and Mike have no criminaI records and are remanded to their parents, but scrappy littIe Ross HadIey is sent to reform school. 15 years later, Mike McGlennon (RusseIl Hayden) is a true-bIue lieutenant in the NYPD, Mary has resurfaced as Vi Parker (Nancy Kelly), the sultry "Garter Girl" cabaret singer, and Ross Hadley (Chester Morris) is an infamous casino moguI. Fate and an underworld gambling feud between Hadley and his greasy competitor, Chappie WiIson (SheIdon Leonard) bring the three together again, but the budding Iove triangle is caught in a crossfire of corruption and ambition.
Chester Morris is best known for pIaying Boston BIackie in 13 movies and a radio series in the 1940s. Acting since his teens, Morris is notabIe for appearing in eccentric director Roland West's only three talkies: AIibi (1929), for which he garnered an Oscar nomination, The Bat Whispers (1930) and Corsair (1931). Twenty years Iater, he received Roland West's deathbed confession for the unsolved 1935 murder of actress Thelma Todd. |
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