Two-Dollar Bettor | |
Director: | Edward L. Cahn |
Producer: | Edward L. Cahn |
Screenplay: | William Raynor (as Bill Raynor) |
Starring: | Steve Brodie Marie Windsor John Litel |
Music: | Irving Gertz |
Cinematography: | Charles Van Enger |
Editing: | Sherman A. Rose (Sherman Rose) |
Studio: | Jack Broder Productions Inc. |
Distributor: | Realart Pictures |
Runtime: | 72 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Two Dollar Bettor is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Steve Brodie, Marie Windsor and John Litel.
A middle-aged man places a two-dollar bet on a horse at the track and wins. The widower with two teenaged daughters becomes hooked on gambling and within a week he begins cashing in his life savings to pay off his bookie. To make matters worse, he's being grifted for thousands of dollars by a beautiful con woman and her husband. To try to get even, the man begins betting on long shots.