The Girl Said No (1937)
Gênero : Comédia, Música
Runtime : 1H 16M
Director : Andrew L. Stone
Sinopse
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.
Dupla de trapalhões desempregados criam uma nova linha de negócios: um serviço de "trabalhos sujos", pequenas vinganças sob encomenda contra desafetos de seus clientes.
Na Filadélfia, o pequeno bookmaker Nicky, que roubou dinheiro da máfia, está se escondendo e implora a um amigo para ajudá-lo a fugir do assassino que está em seu encalço. Ele liga para Mikey, seu amigo desde a infância, mas quando Mikey chega, Nicky não o deixa entrar: seu humor mudou. Então começa uma longa noite enquanto Mikey tenta cuidar de Nicky, acalmá-lo e tirá-lo da cidade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Vinayak, a suspended cop, helps a group of four men rob cricket betting money amounting to 500 crores INR. When it comes to splitting the amount, betrayal hits the team hard and a chase ensues.
Um apostador infeliz desenvolve uma amizade improvável com Brian, o filho de 12 anos de sua ex-namorada. Quando os clientes de Zbikowski não pagam suas dívidas, ele tenta recuperar seus ganhos aceitando apostas nos jogos de beisebol do garoto.
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be out. Tensions mount when Tony goes around Vinnie's paternalistic ways, takes a bet from an unemployed alcoholic, and demands that the loser's wife pay the vig in trade. Is there any way out for Vinnie - with or without his good name?
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Jim Trask, ex-xerife de Abilene, retorna à cidade depois de lutar para a Confederação,mas todos pensavam que ele estava morto. Seu velho amigo Dave Mosely está agora com a ex-namorada de Trask e é um dos criadores de gado cada vez mais brigando com os produtores originais. Trask é persuadido a assumir como xerife de novo, mas há algo sobre a morte do irmão de Mosely na Guerra Civil que está assombrando ele.
Four undesirables run out of a mining town and become marooned in a deserted mountain cabin during a raging snowstorm.
A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
