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- The British naval ship the Wager is wrecked on a desolate island off the tip of South America in 1740. The captain and crew struggle to survive and maintain order while battling extreme weather and their own human nature.
- The Wager unleashes spiritual paranormal twists and turns around every corner. Brucie loses his wager and is mysteriously jolted back in time to see life from the eyes of those he brutally hurt-an experience that will forever alter his broken life.
- The two men enter a wager over a priceless vintage car that leads to an epic journey from Southern Italy to Monte Carlo.
- When the life of mega film star, Michael Steele (Travis), is destroyed right before the most important day of his life, his faith is put to the ultimate test.
- It's matchmaker mayhem as Sherri, a jaded speed dating coordinator bets her new assistant, EVE, that love isn't real. As they oversee a flurry of speed dates, they playfully intervene to win their bet.
- The Wager is a comedy with a tongue-in-cheek look at the Hollywood Film Industry. It stars Oscar nominee Burt Young (Chinatown, Rocky etc) as studio boss Jack Stockman who makes a bet with a hotshot independent producer. The Indie producer says that he can make a movie in three days, without a story or a script. The Wager follows the hapless crew of the film for the three days as they scurry up and down the California coast, trying to get the film "in the can" and win the bet.
- To prove his argument that any child reared in the right atmosphere will turn out well, young millionaire John Dean adopts a child from the slums and has her raised with little Edith, the child of his friend Mr. Ellis. The children are the same age and grow up together as sisters. When they are 18, Dean returns from abroad and his pride in his young ward turns to love. They are very happy together. Edith has become infatuated with the good-looking chauffeur and Mary tries in every way to take her thoughts from him. One day she drops a letter from him in the library. Dean and her father find it, and as they are puzzling over it, Mary enters, looking for something, and to save Edith, claims the note as hers. Dean is heartbroken and Mr. Ellis says, '"I told you so." Mrs. Ellis agrees. Edith, impatient at Mary's long absence, rushes down, and seeing Mary's plight, confesses. Mary is about to go away forever when Dean rushes after her and blames himself for doubting her. He offers her his name and his heart. And as she has learned to love him, she accepts both.
- After avoiding a bandit's advances, a woman receives his bet that she will kiss him willingly.
- Friends, Jeremy, Harry and Peter embark on a simple wager in order for Jeremy to win back some money. The rules are simple, he must spend the night in a supposedly haunted room and in the morning will take the winnings from the card game.
- Brothers Jacques and Pierre Roques are sworn enemies after a bitter quarrel over the distribution of the family will. Pierre, fearing death at Jacques' hands, flees to America and settles in a lonely mansion with his daughter Beth. His wealth is secreted in the cellar and guarded by a huge automatic portcullis arrangement. Henry Leeds, a wild young bachelor utterly opposed to marriage, is bantered unmercifully by fellow clubmen until he signs an agreement to get married within twenty-four hours. Next morning he awakens, sober, and realizes what he had done the night before. Hurriedly he summons his chauffeur and starts for a ride in the country. At the same hour, Jacques has located the mansion of his brother. He enters it secretly, determined to secure what he considers his share to the wealth. Pierre's faithful old butler attempts to stop Jacques. The latter stuns him, ties him to a chair and proceeds on his way to the cellar. He had previously imprisoned Beth in her bedroom. Henry, passing in his car, receives a note from Beth calling for help. He picks up the note, which has been placed in a slipper and thrown into his auto, and hurries to her assistance. He enters the house, releases her and then turns his attention to reviving the badly wounded butler. Beth, fearing for her father's safety, rushes down into the narrow stone passageway to the treasure chamber. She finds Pierre and Jacques in fearful combat. When she tries to interfere Jacques flings her into the treasure vault and locks the heavy iron door. The two brothers struggle on. Pierre is overcome by Jacques, who plans to carry out fiendish revenge. He ties Pierre securely under the death-dealing portcullis and presses a button which starts the heavy iron bars to descend slowly towards the helpless victim. Henry, fearing for Beth's safety, has descended into the passageway in time to be intercepted by the crazed Jacques. Henry realizes he must reach Pierre in a few seconds if his life is to be saved. While Beth is slowly suffocating in the vault and while the portcullis slowly descends upon Pierre. Henry and Jacques fight desperately. Henry kills him and reaches Pierre just in time to rescue him. He liberates Beth from the vault and hastens to revive father and daughter. With the realization that he has gained Beth's gratitude he remembers his wager, proposes to her, and telephones to the club that he has won.
- A dark and humorous suspense drama which begins late one night as Richard is entering his apartment. He encounters an odd man dressed in his underwear and holding a box. The stranger proposes a series of morbid wagers referring to what may be hiding within. Each one is more disturbing and profound than the previous, and all lead toward a life-or-death gamble and a startling, unexpected conclusion.
- A rich man bets he can reform a thief, is robbed, and proves the thief was framed.
- TV Series
- The wealthy Count Lester becomes dissatisfied with the luxury and ease of his everyday life. To create a little excitement at his club he makes a wager of $10,000 with his friend Ferris, that he can live a month as a roustabout without spending a penny that he does not earn. Dressed in his old clothes, the count goes upon the street and eagerly accepts the odd jobs that are offered, such as carrying trunks, unloading coal and selling newspapers. On the last evening of his allotted time he goes to spend the night at the municipal lodging house, but who should he meet there but his old friend Ferris? When the latter, explaining that he is down and out, appeals for aid. Count Lester gladly hands him a check for $1,000. Ferris, who has been deceiving, immediately claims that the count has lost the bet, for he has spent money that he did not earn. The two men return to the club where the count is forced to confess that he has lost the bet, but complacently announces that he has gained some things more valuable to him, health and happiness.
- This ad campaign for Jhonnie Walker's Blue Label, explores the possibility of two people being capable of keeping their word in exchange of an experience. Not any experience, though, but a really unusual one, that supposes a journey towards discovery, the possibility of going beyond what they know, and for them to go out of their comfort zones. With this in mind, the people from Prodavinci decided put their collaborators' word to the test and, at the same time, daring them to experiment. With "Prodavinci: The Gentleman's Wager", the photographer Roberto Mata and the writer Luis Yslas discover a new way to document their realities, and one very different from the one they usually use. In that same way, the radio host Albani Lozada has to face a poetic dare, from storyteller Oscar Marcano, to get an interview from him. On the other hand, the writer Francisco Suniaga will only agree to reveal his professional secrets to Ramon Pasquier, if said radio host dares to dive into the literary world. To conclude, Prodavinci becomes the stage for the new confrontation between Héctor and Aquiles; and epic encounter where song meets flavor, and something that could only reach its peak of perfection with chef Héctor Romero and maestro Aquiles Báez.
- Evermore Betts, a born gambler, is madly in love with Julia Woodrow, the amateur champion heartbreaker of North Chester County. Julia is ambitious for millions and a "title," and although she has smiled at Betts, she hasn't whispered the proverbial, "This is so sudden." Franklyn Fitzmorris is the "hated rival" of Betts, with a more than even change of capturing the "fair Julia." After a game of golf for a small "stipend" which (as usual, when money is concerned) Betts has romped away with, Fitzmorris issues another challenge and the "suitors" agree to play the match on the Palm Beach links, since the "fair Julia" has heard the call of society from that direction. With this match "sewed up," the two men make a wager of $10,000 and "the girl's hand" that one can beat the other in an automobile ride to Florida. A condition of the contest is that a car must be purchased by each one, but in no case must it cost more than $500. If anything happens to the car of either, the driver agrees to make the trip and enter the state of Florida in a vehicle on four wheels, not on rails, not propelled by steam, and not drawn by horses. After making the wager, Betts' broker calls on him to put up his last cent to protect his margins and with the dawn of the morn for the beginning of the race, Betts appears in his wonderful "Ford Flivver," which he has borrowed the money to purchase. Fitzmorris with his fine second hand car gets away to a "beautiful" start and soon leaves Betts far behind. Betts experiences everything from a puncture to "general auto debility" right from the start and after growing gray nearly trying to make it work he accidentally sinks the "flivver" in a lake and is forced to grab himself a job with a traveling circus in order to eat with any degree of regularity. In this new and eventful life his rise is rapid, from feeder of lions, caretaker of elephants, etc., he is promoted to the ranks of a clown as the proper place for him to while away his comical ideas of life. All the while, unable to advance, he pictures the $10,000 he owes to Fitz for the wager and the loss of the lady's hand. One day by chance By-dar-Zee, a pretty circus girl, with whom he has spent much time learning to forget the "fair Julia," gives to the famished Betts a sandwich wrapped in the inevitable newspaper. By chance Betts reads in the paper that Fitzmorris has been held up in Georgia and that if he can but get to Florida he has a golden chance to win. He breathes his dark secret to By-dar-Zee and with her makes his escape from the ferocious circus boss and his outfit. Hugo, a discharged clown, learns of their whereabouts and informs the boss. The fugitives are traced to a small country town, where the boss of the circus orders the whole town burned down to get his "clown" back. During the excitement of the blaze, Betts and By-dar-Zee again make a getaway and manage to eventually get to the state line of Florida, which Betts crosses in a baby carriage with By-dar-Zee as his engineer. He collects the bet from "rival Fitz" and then, gazing fondly at By-dar-Zee, chooses her instead of the title hunting "fair Julia," whom he wishes on Fitz as a "booby prize."
- On their way to the club one evening, Bert and his chum Jack De Peyster see two policemen arresting a tough-looking guy. Jack is sympathetic but Bert laughs at him and says that the arrest is undoubtedly a good thing for society and takes exception to Jack's statement that a perfectly-innocent man can be arrested and thrown into jail and promptly accepts Jack's offer to wager $500 that he can be arrested and not commit a crime of any kind. Jack secures some old clothes, and dressed in these he enters a swell café much to the disgust of the other diners, one of whom notifies the proprietor, who phones for the police. The police arrive. Jack is arrested as a suspicious character and taken to the police station. From the station he sends a note to Bert telling him of his predicament, and asking him to come over and bail him out. Bert realizes he has lost the wager, but thinks to have some fun with Jack and denies all knowledge of him. Meanwhile Jack's valet has become alarmed at his master's absence and hurries to the home of Miss Livingstone, Jack's fiancée, and tells her of his fears. Miss Livingstone and her mother hurry to the police station and there see and identify Jack who is promptly released, and when Bert finally arrives at the police station, again he is arrested and thrown into a cell for playing pranks with the force. However, all ends well with the police captain a guest of the two boys at the club.
- This is a good one, and well worked out by Masters, who wagers Macy, who is engaged to Gladys, that he will kiss her with Macy's consent, on their wedding day. The loser is to open a case of champagne. To this agreement all their friends are witnesses at a bachelor dinner given to Macy, in honor of his engagement to Gladys. Macy tells Gladys about the wager, and puts her on her guard. She is very much disturbed by Masters' presumption, and does not fail to snub him when she meets him. Gladys' mother gives her an engagement party, to which all her young friends are invited. She is anticipating a visit from an elderly aunt from the country, whom she has not seen for years, and who is very anxious to be present at this occasion. As an additional affront to Masters, he is not invited, but learning of the aunt's expected visit, he disguises himself as the aunt, and during the festivities, he is ushered into the room. His disguise is perfect, and Gladys welcomes him, introducing him to Macy. The "old lady" takes Gladys in her arms, and as a matter of deference, asks Macy if "she" can kiss his fiancée. Naturally the young man gives his consent, and Masters deliberately places a resounding osculatory impression upon the lips of the fair Gladys. Just after this has occurred, the real aunt appears upon the scene. At first there is a lull and then there is an outburst of surprise. Explanations are demanded by Gladys and Macy, which are answered by Masters, taking off his bonnet and wig. At first Macy is angry, but the guests tell him that the joke is on him, that he has lost his wager, and he might as well admit it. Gracefully Macy accepts his defeat, shakes hands with Masters, and everything goes merrily on, with renewed zeal and increased jollity. Later, down at the club, the wager is paid and the boys all drink to the health of Gladys' aunt.
- A little heiress, who is in danger of being forced be her mercenary papa into a marriage for title and rank, decides to take the law into her own hands, and answering an advertisement for a young woman in an office, she leaves home secretly, accepts the position and engages board at a little downtown boarding house under another name. About the same time a young man, one of a group in the club one evening, hears the old fellow say that the youths of today are incapable of any real accomplishment even of earning their own living half the time. He takes up the challenge and makes a wager that he can earn his own living for a month without any pull or assistance from anybody and prove himself a man indeed. Of course love brings him to the same office where the young lady had found employment and they become fellow employees, each believing the other to be a poor wage earner. The usual office routine is hard for both of them and when any troubles come up they comfort each other and are thus drawn together. The young heiress is advertised for and very nearly caught, but not quite, and the young man preserves his incognito until he is quite sure that there is but one girl in the world for him and that she is this poor little wage earner. She realizes that life without a family or friends is rather a dreary affair and that this humble wage earner is probably the only man in the world for her, particularly as she can have plenty of money any time she chooses to ask for it. And so they agree to marry and after the ceremony, he takes her to his apartment, thinking that he has a great joke on her. But when she takes from her little bag a copy of the advertisement and shows him the headlines, which tell of her broken engagement with a count, of who of really is and of the enormous reward offered for information concerning her, the young man realizes that the laugh is not all on one side.
- The Devil has a crisis of confidence after losing another bet with God.
- Two farmers from Kentucky have a conversation next to a river in suburban Tokyo
- Four clubmen importune a tramp to change $1,000 bill to settle a wager. The experiences of the tramp in his efforts to get change makes a series of highly comic situations.
- Friar Tuck and Robin decide to have a wager to see who can raise more money. Robin will dress and act as a beggar. Tuck will appeal to religion and Christian charity.
- California Governor Leland Stanford bets an enormous amount of money in trying to prove a point about horse racing. He needs photographer Eadward Muybridge to get the proof he needs to win the wager.
- A wealthy patron's request for Paladin's guardianship may end differently than expected with gambling involved--gambling with the highest of stakes.
- 1977–19871hTV-PG6.8 (54)TV EpisodeApril gets the whole crew in shape with her aerobics class, Captain orders. A reporter (Ralph Bellamy) believes that famous aviator Amelia Earhart is on board. A man bets $1 million that his brother will find love during the cruise.
- Rowdy is framed for murder when a young practical joker's scheme to rob his father's bank takes a tragic turn.
- A run (on foot) and ride (on horse) race is being held. Mary Ellen and Erin bet two guys that they will win. Elizabeth becomes a taskmaster in training Mary Ellen and Erin. Jeffrey gets a signed picture from a movie star.
- During a general election a politician impedes his performance because he has placed a bet against himself winning.
- Oliver and Simon decide to have a wager on who can make the most profit on an item chosen by the other.
- In Monaco Lupin is going to compete at the Monaco Grand Prix. But when he tries out the casinos in Monaco he lost everything he bet including his own Formula-1 Race Car to a big time business man. So his next strategy is to race for the guy who owns his car while Jigen, Goemon and Fujiko go steal the winning money.
- Warden Poindexter is intent on cracking down on gambling in the prison and takes extreme measures. But the ban has the opposite effect on Fuentes making him want to gamble even more.
- Bea steps up her run for Mayor and makes a winner takes all bet with Pete. Tony's divorce could end up being more complicated than he originally planned.