Two-Dollar Bettor
1951 film by Edward L. Cahn
- September 9, 1951 (1951-09-09)
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Two Dollar Bettor is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Steve Brodie, Marie Windsor and John Litel.
Plot
A middle-aged man places a two-dollar bet on a horse at the track and wins. The widower with two teenaged daughters becomes hooked on gambling and within a week he begins cashing in his life savings to pay off his bookie. To make matters worse, he's being grifted for thousands of dollars by a beautiful con woman and her husband. To try to get even, the man begins betting on long shots.
Cast
- Steve Brodie as Rick Bowers, alias Rick Slate
- Marie Windsor as Mary Slate
- John Litel as John Hewitt
- Barbara Logan as Nancy Hewitt
- Robert Sherwood as Phillip Adams
- Barbara Bestar as Diane 'Dee' Hewitt
- Walter Kingsford as Carleton P. Adams
- Don Shelton as George Irwin
- Kay Lavelle as Grandma Sarah Irwin (as Kay La Lavelle)
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as Chuck Nordillnger (as Carl Switzer)
- Isabel Randolph as Margaret Adams
- Ralph Reed as Teddy Cosgrove Phelps
- Barbara Billingsley as Miss Pierson (as Barbara Billinley)
- Ralph Hodges as Chester Mitchell
- Madelon Baker as Grace Shepard (as Madelon Mitchell)
See also
External links
- Two-Dollar Bettor at IMDb
- Two-Dollar Bettor is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Edward L. Cahn
- The Homicide Squad (1931)
- Law and Order (1932)
- Radio Patrol (1932)
- Afraid to Talk (1932)
- Emergency Call (1933)
- Laughter in Hell (1933)
- Death Drives Through (1935)
- Confidential (1935)
- Bad Guy (1937)
- Redhead (1941)
- The Omaha Trail (1942, uncredited)
- Main Street After Dark (1945)
- Dangerous Partners (1945)
- Born to Speed (1947)
- The Gas House Kids "in Hollywood" (1947)
- The Checkered Coat (1948)
- I Cheated the Law (1949)
- Prejudice (1949)
- The Great Plane Robbery (1950)
- Destination Murder (1950)
- Experiment Alcatraz (1950)
- Two-Dollar Bettor (1951)
- Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
- Betrayed Women (1955)
- Silent Fear (1956)
- Girls in Prison (1956)
- The She Creature (1956)
- Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956)
- Runaway Daughters (1956)
- Flesh and the Spur (1957)
- Voodoo Woman (1957)
- Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
- Dragstrip Girl (1957)
- Motorcycle Gang (1957)
- Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
- Jet Attack (1958)
- Suicide Battalion (1958)
- Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
- Hong Kong Confidential (1958)
- The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
- Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959)
- Inside the Mafia (1959)
- Invisible Invaders (1959)
- Pier 5, Havana (1959)
- Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
- A Dog's Best Friend (1959)
- Vice Raid (1960)
- Cage of Evil (1960)
- Gunfighters of Abilene (1960)
- The Music Box Kid (1960)
- Noose for a Gunman (1960)
- Oklahoma Territory (1960)
- Three Came to Kill (1960)
- Twelve Hours to Kill (1960)
- The Walking Target (1960)
- Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961)
- Frontier Uprising (1961)
- Five Guns to Tombstone (1961)
- Police Dog Story (1961)
- Operation Bottleneck (1961)
- Gun Fight (1961)
- The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
- When the Clock Strikes (1961)
- You Have to Run Fast (1961)
- Secret of Deep Harbor (1961)
- Gun Street (1962)
- The Clown and the Kid (1962)
- Incident in an Alley (1962)
- Beauty and the Beast (1962)
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