Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Powell, always an interesting figure upon the screen, completely dominates the whole picture. Suave, quiet, yet inwardly domineering in character, he presents a most convincing picture of the master gambler who, without ballyhoo and outward arrogance, holds in subjection all the forces of New York's gambling racket. The minor characters, Kay Francis as the gambler's wife, and Regis Toomey who takes the part of the selfish younger brother are admirably cast...
...know of a drunken revelry, a wild party, given by Dennis Murphy, a gambler, at a Grand Avenue roadhouse near Detroit on the night of Nov. 5 last at which a governor of Michigan, a chief of police and four judges were present with gamblers, criminals and bootleggers. The revelry included dances by naked hootchy-koochy girls - and all the rest of it. It was a Bacchanalian orgy...
...petty criminals stood before the bar of justice. The man was convicted of bookmaking (horse-race betting), sentenced to a year in prison, fined $1,000. The woman was found guilty of running a disorderly house, given three years imprisonment, also fined $1,000. The cases of the gambler and the procuress did not excite Atlantic County interest as examples of routine viciousness, but as the first definite results of an unusually elaborate crusade conducted by a newspaper...
...Blood, famed killer of Gambler Rosenthal, was in Mike's public school class. Some of Mike's pals grew up to be rich; one of them became a gunman. Mike ends his own story at the point where he tired of selling papers and began to look for a job-not because he wanted to be rich (he hated capitalism) but to stay alive...
Street of Chance (Paramount). Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler whose murder more than a year ago kept the front pages of Manhattan papers lively for months and has never been solved by the police, was a man of scrupulous habits, who paid his debts promptly, was faithful to his wife, and stooped to cheating in a card game only once and then in an effort to make an honest man of his young brother. Thus, at least, the producers of Street of Chance have worked out his character in a picture shrewdly designed to profit by still active popular interest...