Smart Guy
"HE GAMBLED WITH LOVE!"
A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
"HE GAMBLED WITH LOVE!"
A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
Rick Vallin
Johnny Reagan
Veda Ann Borg
Lee
Bobby Larson
Bobby
Wanda McKay
Jean Wickers
Jack La Rue
Matt Taylor
Mary Gordon
Maggie
Paul McVey
Kilbourne
Addison Richards
District Attorney Ben Carter
Roy Darmour
Kearns
A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
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.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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.
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.