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Lost by Comedians Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, at poker: considerable. Testifying last week at the income-tax-evasion trial of a Chicago gambler, they tried to remember their losses for certain periods. Abbott thought he had dropped from $20,000 to $25,000. Costello's contribution, he recalled, was only "around...
There were about 400 in the crowd. It included a Texas oil millionaire, a Philadelphia income-tax lawyer, and a professional gambler from Memphis. Fourteen cockfighters had each posted $1,000 to enter...
Killer McCoy (MGM) is a slum boy (Mickey Rooney) who becomes a ranking boxer. He falls in love with a finishing-school girl (Ann Blyth) who does not realize that her father (Brian Donlevy) is a big-time gambler. The rest of the story runs true to type. The hero's father is a no-account souse (nicely played by James Dunn); and whenever the laughter, tears or plot complications get too tiresome, there's always another fight to watch. The whole picture is so disarmingly old-fashioned that it is almost likable-but not quite...
...after 65 hours of play and 6,202 spins of the wheels, Hibbs & Walford cashed in their chips-still $1,500 ahead of Harold's Club and $7,500 ahead of Reno's roulette wheels. One veteran professional gambler was still unconvinced. Said he: "The last big winner here was twelve years ago. He had a system, too. He's washing dishes now across the street...
...Foxes of Harrow (20th Century-Fox) may easily be confused with the Foxes of Hollywood. A generation before the Civil War, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), a riverboat gambler, becomes a Louisiana plantation owner. He calls the place Harrow and imports a beautiful but not very compliant vixen (Maureen O'Hara) from New Orleans, to become...