The Gambler and the Lady
- 26 December 1952 (1952-12-26) (US)
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]
Plot
An 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
- Dane Clark as Jim Forster
- Kathleen Byron as Pat
- Naomi Chance as Lady Susan Willens
- Meredith Edwards as Dave Davies
- Anthony Forwood as Lord Peter Willens
- Eric Pohlmann as Arturo Colonna
- Anthony Ireland as Richard Farning
- Max Bacon as Maxie
- Mona Washbourne as Miss Minter
- Jane Griffiths as Lady Jane Greer
- Richard Shaw as Louis
- Julian Somers as Licasi
- George Pastell as Jacko Spina
- Enzo Coticchia as Angelo Colonna
- Hal Osmond as Stable Groom
- Percy Marmont as Lord Willens-Hortland
- Felix Felton as Boxing Promoter
References
External links
- The Gambler and the Lady at IMDb
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