Two-Dollar Bettor (1951)

Directors

Edward L. Cahn

Cast

Barbara Billingsley, John Litel, Marie Windsor, Philip Van Zandt, Ralph Sanford, Steve Brodie, Walter Kingsford

The story

John Hewitt, a widower with two teenage daughters, places a two-dollar bet on a horse at the track and wins. Convinced that betting on horse racing means easy money, he becomes addicted and soon depletes his life savings and embezzles $14,000 in company funds to pay his bookie, whose attractive representative Mary Slate collects debts and appears to like John. With an audit of the comptroller's office looming, John becomes desperate to replace the money and steals $2,000 more.

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