''The Gambler and the Lady'' is a 1952 British

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directed by Patrick Jenkins and

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and starring Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron and

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. It was made by

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Plot

An American gambler, Forster (Clark), aspires to find acceptance amongst the British nobility after falling in love with the aristocratic Lady Susan Willens (Chance), a prominent blueblood who has actually been pursuing him. To start a relationship with her, he dumps his girlfriend (Byron), a singer in one of his nightclubs who becomes murderously jealous. He must also deal with mobsters who try to take over his nightclubs. Swindled by an upper-class con-man (Ireland) into voluntarily selling out to the mobsters anyway all his valuable assets including the gambling-casino nightclubs, a racehorse and a boxer, in order to invest in a gold-mining scam that is eventually unmasked as a fraud. He finds himself broke and in a gunfight with the mobsters, who have been deceived by a gang member with a grudge against him into thinking that they need to kill him. Wounded in the gunfight, he is about to make an escape from his mobster pursuers when his jilted girlfriend tries to kill him by hitting him with her car. He is knocked down by a glancing blow, and she flees the scene. At that point, Lady Willens and Forster's butler arrive on the scene and come to his aid. Forster looks up from the gutter and says, "Susan" with relief and gratitude. Susan tells the butler, "Let's bring him home."

Cast

* Dane Clark - Jim Forster * Kathleen Byron - Pat *

- Lady Susan Willens * Meredith Edwards - Dave Davies * Anthony Forwood - Lord Peter Willens *

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- Arturo Colonna * Anthony Ireland - Richard Farning *

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- Maxie *

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- Miss Minter * Jane Griffiths - Lady Jane Greer * Richard Shaw - Louis *

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– Licasi *

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- Jacko Spina *

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- Angelo Colonna *

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- Stable Groom *

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- Lord Willens-Hortland * Felix Felton - Boxing Promoter

References

External links

* 1952 crime drama films 1952 films British black-and-white films British crime drama films 1950s English-language films Film noir Films directed by Sam Newfield Films set in London Hammer Film Productions films Lippert Pictures films 1950s British films {{1950s-UK-film-stub