Never Trust a Gambler
"A true-life MANHUNT"
A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
"A true-life MANHUNT"
A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
Dane Clark
Steve Garry
Cathy O'Donnell
Virginia Merrill
Tom Drake
Police Sgt. Ed Donovan
Jeff Corey
Lou Brecker
Myrna Dell
Dolores Alden
Rhys Williams
Police Sgt. Quentin McCloy
Kathryn Card
Phoebe
Percy Helton
Sunbeam Liquor Store Clerk (uncredited)
Will Wright
Cap Douglas (uncredited)
A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.