Silver Queen (1942)
NIMBLE with CARDS...or HEARTS!
Gênero : Faroeste
Runtime : 1H 20M
Director : Lloyd Bacon
Escritor : Cecile Kramer, Bernard Schubert
Sinopse
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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