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Outcasts of Poker Flat (RKO). Pay dirt was running thin at Poker Flat, Calif. in 1851 until a dance hall girl gave birth to a female child in the backroom of Gambler John Oakhurst's saloon, Mr. Oakhurst (Preston Foster) acting as midwife. Because a gold strike coincided with the birth, Oakhurst called the baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried...
...royal castle, now a hotel, and promised to interference as long as he observed the law. Meanwhile, he was surrounding himself with secrecy in England. While great trucks were driving off his belongings, no men save those with special permits were allowed with in the gates of Oakhurst Court. The Prince is being mysterious in order to play the game of intrigue better, but the game must grow tiresome when it forces him to move so often