“His game is fancy women ... and his fate is Lady Luck !”
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
Rudolph Maté
Ted Richmond
Seton I. Miller
Irving Glassberg
Frank Skinner
Tyrone Power
Mark Fallon
Piper Laurie
Angelique Dureau
Julie Adams
Ann Conant (as Julia Adams)
John McIntire
Kansas John Polly
Paul Cavanagh
Edmond Dureau
John Baer
Laurent Dureau
Ron Randell
George Elwood
Ralph Dumke
Caldwell
Robert Warwick
Paul O. Monet
William Reynolds
Pierre
Guy Williams
Andre
Alan Dexter
Man
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Kristy90
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The Mississippi Gambler (1953) Original Trailer [HD]
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Universal International Pictures