Reno
"All he had to thank Reno for was lovely Jessie Gibbs...And now he was losing her!"
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
"All he had to thank Reno for was lovely Jessie Gibbs...And now he was losing her!"
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Richard Dix
William Shayne
Gail Patrick
Jessie Gibbs
Anita Louise
Mrs. Joanne Ryder
Paul Cavanagh
John R. Banton
Laura Hope Crews
Mrs. Gardner
Louis Jean Heydt
Judge Jimmy Howard
Hobart Cavanaugh
Abe Compass
Charles Halton
Augustus Welch
Astrid Allwyn
Flora McKenzie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
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.
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.