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...Outcasts of Poker Flat (20th Century-Fox) plays hob with Bret Harte's somber 1869 tale about a gambler, a drunk and a couple of ladies of easy virtue who are booted out of a California Gold Rush town as undesirables and die of cold and starvation in a snowbound mountain cabin. The picture casts out much of the pungent realism of Harte's story and adds some new characters, a dash of old-hat movie melodramatics, a romance and a happy ending...
Miriam Hopkins plays a fairly refined camp follower, while her companion has been transformed for purposes of movie romance into a good girl (Anne Baxter) who has misguidedly fallen in with a bad man (Cameron Mitchell). In the end, a handsome gambler (Dale Robertson) with a Southern drawl and a heart of gold chokes the bad man and redeems Anne with his love. Now & then the picture has some forcefully directed scenes, but this Outcasts emerges, on the whole, as flat movie drama...
This week the little land's long vote-count began. Chichi was confident. "I'm no gambler," said he, "but I'll bet Nino $10,000 on this election and spot him 5,000 votes...
...villain. The judge directly linked Rupp with Bookie Ed Curd, characterized as "the Frank Erickson of Kentucky." The judge charged that Rupp 1) wined and dined Curd at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub;* 2) with the knowledge of the players, was often in contact with Curd to get the gambler's "line" on Kentucky games; 3) once bawled out a player for missing a shot that "just cost my friend, Burgess Carey, $500." In addition, Streit charged that a player was crippled for a month when coaching authorities allowed him to play on an injured ankle shot full...
...Gambler...