词条 | The Gambler and the Lady |
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| name = The Gambler and the Lady | image = Gambler and the Lady poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Patrick Jenkins Sam Newfield | producer = Anthony Hinds | writer = Sam Newfield | starring = Dane Clark | music = Ivor Slaney | cinematography = Walter J. Harvey | editing = Maurice Rootes | studio = Hammer Film Productions | distributor = Lippert Pictures (US) Exclusive Films (UK) | released = {{Film date|df=y|1952|12|26|US}} | runtime = 72 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = }}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] PlotAn 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
References1. ^http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/34237 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/terror-street-v49124|title=Terror Street (1954) - Montgomery Tully - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|author=|date=|website=AllMovie|accessdate=23 April 2018}} External links
10 : 1950s crime drama films|British films|British black-and-white films|British crime drama films|English-language films|Film noir|Films directed by Sam Newfield|Films set in London|Hammer Film Productions films|Lippert Pictures films |
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