Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inviting New York's slick-haired Gambler Frank Costello to testify about gambling, the U.S. Senate had been strictly high class all the way: it had not only communicated with him in a manner befitting his station (i.e., through his attorney) , but had arranged to have cops at the airport to prevent any possible chance of his getting plugged on arrival. Last week, as he waited to keep his appointment, the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" was determined to be just as polite to the Senate...
Carroll, who made a great show of earnest interest, was treated with vast politeness, too. (Said one baffled spectator: "They act like they was trying to give him the Congressional Medal.") But pudgy, fat-necked Gambler Frank Erickson, once assailed by the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia as a "tinhorn and punk," ran into trouble. Enraged when Erickson, for approximately the twelfth time, insisted on his "constitutional rights," Senator McFarland yelled: "You're your own crime syndicate, aren...
...fellow as bulky as himself; it was his brother Leonard. Then Erickson answered, apologizing for "losing my memory-I was a little nervous." The brother, it turned out, was paid $20,000 a year. "Just to deposit money in the bank?" asked Tobey incredulously. "That's right," said Gambler Erickson...
...faithfully to Broadway Bill that in one sequence he appears to have lifted scenes bodily out of the old picture without bothering to reshoot them. Among the performers playing a return engagement: Raymond Walburn as a gentlemanly tout, Clarence Muse as a trainer, Douglas Dumbrille as a big-time gambler, Frankie Darro as a crooked jockey. As extra dividends, Capra has plumped out the cast with some new players who are a match for them, especially William Demarest, who plays Walburn's sidekick, Charles Bickford as a dyspeptic millionaire, Percy Kilbride as a hayseed, and Coleen Gray, who makes...
John Garfield is the skillful jockey whose well-earned reputation for riding a crooked mile keeps him off U.S. racetracks. To his young motherless son (Orley Lindgren), who tags along from one continental track to another, the jockey is a hero. After double-crossing Italian Gambler Luther Adler by winning a race he was supposed to throw, Garfield flees to Paris, takes up with a chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life...