The Lady Gambles (1949)

Directors

Michael Gordon

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett

The story

When his estranged wife Joan is found badly beaten after using loaded dice in a back-alley game, David Boothe looks back on how she came to this sorry state. A reporter from Chicago, he is on an assignment at Boulder Dam, so he and his wife stay at a hotel in Las Vegas. There the casino's owner, Corrigan, introduces her to gambling with a few chips on the house.

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