The Gambling Sex (1932)
장르 : 드라마
상영시간 : 59분
연출 : Fred C. Newmeyer
각본 : F. McGrew Willis
시놉시스
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
A house by the sea has stood vacant for many years, after misfortune befell several owners, which an artist painting the house explains to a passergy. A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.
결혼은 인생의 무덤이라며 최후의 독신에게 상금을 건 마이클과 친구들. 7년 후, 이제 남은 총각은 두 명. 미안하다, 친구야. 급전이 필요하니 네가 먼저 결혼을 해줘야겠다!
Feyda is a man of wealth and has many fine qualities, but he is powerless to resist gambling and beautiful women. Feyda falls instantly in love with Lisa, who is engaged to his dear friend Victor.
The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
트로터는 도박을 좋아하는 택시기사다. 하지만, 아내의 간청으로 이제 더 이상 도박은 않기로 결심한다. 그런데 어느날, 같은 회사 동료인 루니가 택시에서 주워 들은 경마정보를 애기해 주자, 마음이 바뀐다. 결국 경마장에 가서 마권을 산 트로터에게 점점 행운이 따르기 시작하고, 거는 족족 돈을 따기 시작한다. 마지막엔 친구들과 주위 사람들의 응원 속에 정말 대박을 터뜨린다.
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.
Alan is a gambler desperate to erase the huge sports debt he owes to a cruel but quirky Chicago mobster.
A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
Living the High Life
In the UK, one person dies each day due to gambling. The Unseen is about living with a gambling addiction. Narrated by the filmmaker from his autobiographical poem, "A Wheel That Spins". The wheel represents the wheel of life and a wheel of chance. The wheel keeps on spinning - morning, noon and night.