Any Number Can Play (1949)Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son. Director:Mervyn LeRoy |
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Any Number Can Play (1949)Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son. Director:Mervyn LeRoy |
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Charley Enley Kyng
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Alexis Smith | ... |
Lon Kyng
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Wendell Corey | ... |
Robbin Elcott
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Audrey Totter | ... |
Alice Elcott
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| Frank Morgan | ... |
Jim Kurstyn
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Ada
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Lewis Stone | ... |
Ben Gavery Snelerr
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Barry Sullivan | ... |
Tycoon
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Marjorie Rambeau | ... |
Sarah Calbern
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| Edgar Buchanan | ... |
Ed
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Leon Ames | ... |
Dr. Palmer
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Mickey Knox | ... |
Pete Senta
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Richard Rober | ... |
Lew 'Angie' Debretti
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| William Conrad | ... |
Frank Sistina
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| Darryl Hickman | ... |
Paul Enley Kyng
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Although Charley Kying has owned a casino for fifteen years, on one rainy night events and people seem to converge and threaten his family home and second home, his gambling house. After a doctor secretly diagnoses him with a severe heart condition and recommends that if he continues to subject himself to the daily stress of a professional gambler, he hasn't long to live. Later that day he's made to realize that he's been neglecting his faithful wife for years and abdicated his duties as father to his son, who resents his father's unsavory reputation and rebuffs his interest in attending that night's prom. Charley's weakling brother-in-law, who sponges off him by freeloading at home and cheating him out of petty cash as croupier, agrees to conspire with rival gamblers to cheat Charley out of thousands. Among the others who add stress to what would seem to be... Written by duke1029@aol.com
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