The Big Gamble

Sep 4, 1931

1h 5m

★ 6.0

Overview

A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Alan Beckwith

William Boyd

Beverly Ames Beckwith

Dorothy Sebastian

Andrew North

Warner Oland

Fred 'Squint' Dugan

James Gleason

Trixie, North's Companion

Geneva Mitchell

Nora Dugan

Zasu Pitts

Mae Robbins

June MacCloy

Johnnie Ames

William Collier Jr.

Webb

Ralph Ince

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