Gambling House

Gambling House

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ted Tetzlaff
Produced by Warren B. Duff
Screenplay by Marvin Borowsky
Allen Rivkin
Story by Erwin S. Gelsey
Starring Victor Mature
Terry Moore
William Bendix
Cleo Moore
Music by Roy Webb
Cinematography Harry J. Wild
Edited by Roland Gross
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Pictures
Release dates
  • January 20, 1951 (US)[1]
Running time
 80 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Gambling House is a 1951 crime film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff and starring Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix and Cleo Moore.[2]

Plot

A crooked gambler decides to turn on his murderous boss.

Cast

Reception

Critical response

When first released, critic Bosley Crowther panned the film. He wrote, "Don't look for very rich pickings in R. K. O.'s Gambling House, a run-of-the-mill melodrama that came to the Mayfair on Saturday. Your chances for solid satisfaction from this tale of a crook who goes straight after meeting a decent young lady are about as good as they would be from a fixed wheel ... Put it down as claptrap and the performance of Mr. Mature as another demonstration of an actor doing the best he can with a bad role. Miss Moore is entirely incidental and William Bendix is mulishly mean as the tough and deceitful rascal who crosses up Mr. Mature. To say any more about it might tend to incriminate somebody."[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Gambling House: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Gambling House at the TCM Movie Database.
  3. ↑ Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, March 19, 1951. Accessed: July 27, 2013.

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