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

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Cast

Rick Bowers - aka Rick Slate

Steve Brodie

Mary Slate

Marie Windsor

John Hewitt

John Litel

Nancy Hewitt

Barbara Logan

Phillip Adams

Robert Sherwood

Diane 'Dee' Hewitt

Barbara Bestar

Carleton P. Adams

Walter Kingsford

George Irwin

Don Shelton

Grandma Sarah Irwin

Kay Lavelle

Chuck Nordlinger

Carl Switzer

Margaret Adams

Isabel Randolph

Teddy Cosgrove Phelps

Ralph Reed

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.

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.

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.

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0.0

The Gamblers

Jun 20, 2007

No overview available.

5.1

Destination Murder

Jun 9, 1950

Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.

6.0

The Lady Gambles

May 20, 1949

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

6.2

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

Apr 15, 1948

A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.

5.9

Cry Vengeance

Nov 24, 1954

Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, framed, and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but one desire, revenge on still-hiding Tino Morelli.

5.8

New York Confidential

Feb 15, 1955

Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.

5.8

The Long Wait

May 26, 1954

Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.

6.0

Blind Date

Aug 1, 1959

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.

5.5

Guilty Bystander

Apr 20, 1950

A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.

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.

6.0

Within the Law

Mar 17, 1939

Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.

5.0

World for Ransom

Jan 31, 1954

In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.

6.8

Woman on the Run

Nov 10, 1950

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.

6.1

Repeat Performance

May 22, 1947

On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.

4.9

First Man into Space

Feb 27, 1959

The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...

4.8

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.

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.