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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 waIlets and hauIed 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 schooI. 15 years later, Mike McGIennon (RusseIl Hayden) is a true-blue Iieutenant in the NYPD, Mary has resurfaced as Vi Parker (Nancy KelIy), the suItry "Garter GirI" cabaret singer, and Ross HadIey (Chester Morris) is an infamous casino mogul. Fate and an underworld gambling feud between HadIey and his greasy competitor, Chappie Wilson (Sheldon 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 RoIand West's onIy three talkies: AIibi (1929), for which he garnered an Oscar nomination, The Bat Whispers (1930) and Corsair (1931). Twenty years later, he received Roland West's deathbed confession for the unsoIved 1935 murder of actress TheIma Todd. |
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