logologo
MovieVerse© 2024
Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceContact Us
Made with ❤️ by Thathsara
movie poster
Two Dollar Bettor
Sign in to create your own watchlist

Two Dollar Bettor

Sep 9, 1951
1h 12m
★ 5.3

Don't be a sucker!

Overview

An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.

Genres

Crime
Drama

Production Companies

Jack Broder Productions Inc.

Two Dollar Bettor Trailers

No Trailers found.

You may also like

Death Goes to School
5.4

Death Goes to School

May 1, 1953

Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
6.0

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

Sep 10, 1959

Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.

Seven Swords
6.2

Seven Swords

Jul 25, 2005

In the 17th century, seven swordsmen join their forces to save the villagers from a manipulating General who bans martial arts.

3 Kids and a Queen
6.0

3 Kids and a Queen

Oct 21, 1935

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.

The Spider Woman
6.8

The Spider Woman

Dec 24, 1943

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".

Subway in the Sky
5.5

Subway in the Sky

Nov 1, 1959

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.

No Image Available
0.0

The Gamblers

Jun 20, 2007

General arrives in Baden-Baden with his stepdaughter Polina and his mother, seeking social standing and respite. Secretly, they chase casino fortunes alongside a French businessman and beauty. Alexej, Polina’s tutor, struggles with his own gambling past while falling for her. When the wealthy “Babushka” dies, the family’s financial woes vanish, freeing Alexej to court Polina. Yet he loses everything in a sudden winning streak that upends loyalties and reveals the world’s true stakes: love, money, and chance.

Take
5.3

Take

Jul 25, 2008

The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.

Owning Mahowny
6.7

Owning Mahowny

May 2, 2003

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

Curse of the Stone Hand
2.2

Curse of the Stone Hand

Mar 3, 1965

A house by the sea has stood vacant for many years, after misfortune befell several owners, which an artist painting the house explains to a passergy. A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.

Chinatown at Midnight
5.6

Chinatown at Midnight

Nov 17, 1949

A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns violent.

Bluebeard
5.4

Bluebeard

Oct 26, 1944

Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?

The Spider
5.3

The Spider

Dec 1, 1945

An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.

Backlash
4.9

Backlash

Mar 1, 1947

In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.

Over-Exposed
5.2

Over-Exposed

Apr 1, 1956

This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.

The Gangster
4.9

The Gangster

Nov 25, 1947

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.

One Girl's Confession
6.1

One Girl's Confession

Apr 6, 1953

Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.

Women's Prison
5.7

Women's Prison

Feb 1, 1955

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

The Spellbinder
6.0

The Spellbinder

Jul 28, 1939

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?

The Thirteenth Hour
5.8

The Thirteenth Hour

Feb 6, 1947

In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.

Cast

Steve Brodie

Rick Bowers - aka Rick Slate

Steve Brodie

Marie Windsor

Mary Slate

Marie Windsor

John Litel

John Hewitt

John Litel

Barbara Logan

Nancy Hewitt

Barbara Logan

Robert Sherwood

Phillip Adams

Robert Sherwood

Barbara Bestar

Diane 'Dee' Hewitt

Barbara Bestar

Walter Kingsford

Carleton P. Adams

Walter Kingsford

Don Shelton

George Irwin

Don Shelton

Kay Lavelle

Grandma Sarah Irwin

Kay Lavelle

Carl Switzer

Chuck Nordlinger

Carl Switzer

Isabel Randolph

Margaret Adams

Isabel Randolph

Ralph Reed

Teddy Cosgrove Phelps

Ralph Reed