King of Gamblers

King of Gamblers
Directed by	Robert Florey John E. Burch (assistant)
Cinematography	Harry Fischbeck
Edited by	Harvey Johnston
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	April 23, 1937 (1937-04-23)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

King of Gamblers is a 1937 American low-budget gangster film directed by Robert Florey. Akim Tamiroff takes an unusual featured role as a slot-machine racketeer whose bombing of an uncooperative barber shop leads to a murder charge. (The film was also known as Czar of the Slot Machines.)

By her own account, silent film star Louise Brooks played a bit part in the film for Florey, who "specialised in giving jobs to destitute and sufficiently grateful actresses", referring both to herself and to Evelyn Brent.^[1] However, Brooks does not appear in the completed film.

Cast

Claire Trevor as Dixie Moore
Lloyd Nolan as Jim Adams
Akim Tamiroff as Steve Kalkas
Buster Crabbe as Eddie
Helen Burgess as Jackie Nolan
Porter Hall as George Kramer
Barlowe Borland as Mr. Parker
Purnell Pratt as Strohm
Colin Tapley as Joe
Paul Fix as Charlie
Cecil Cunningham as Big Edna
Fay Holden as Nurse
Evelyn Brent as Cora
Louise Brooks (scenes deleted)

References

↑ "Louise Brooks, Stardom and Evelyn Brent", Toronto Film Society, January 13, 1975

External links

King of Gamblers at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Robert Florey

The Hole in the Wall (1929)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
The Battle of Paris (1929)
The Road Is Fine (1930)
My Wife's Teacher (1930)
Love Songs (1930)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
The Man Called Back (1932)
Those We Love (1932)
Girl Missing (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
The House on 56th Street (1933)
Registered Nurse (1934)
Smarty (1934)
I Sell Anything (1934)
I Am a Thief (1934)
The Woman in Red (1935)
The Florentine Dagger (1935)
Going Highbrow (1935)
Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Ship Cafe (1935)
The Payoff (1935)
The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
Till We Meet Again (1936)
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
Outcast (1937)
King of Gamblers (1937)
Mountain Music (1937)
This Way Please (1937)
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
Dangerous to Know (1938)
King of Alcatraz (1938)
Disbarred (1939)
Hotel Imperial (1939)
The Magnificent Fraud (1939)
Death of a Champion (1939)
Parole Fixer (1940)
Women Without Names (1940)
The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
Meet Boston Blackie (1941)
Two in a Taxi (1941)
Dangerously They Live (1941)
Lady Gangster (1941)
The Desert Song (1943)
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Man from Frisco (1944)
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
Danger Signal (1945)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Rogues' Regiment (1948)
Outpost in Morocco (1949)
The Crooked Way (1949)
The Vicious Years (1950)
Johnny One-Eye (1950)

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