The Big Gamble (1931)

  • NR
  • 09/04/1931 (US)
  • Thriller, Crime
  • 1h 5m

Overview

A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.

Octavus Roy Cohen

Novel

Fred Niblo

Director

Walter DeLeon

Screenplay

F. McGrew Willis

Screenplay

Cast

William Boyd's headshot

William Boyd

Alan Beckwith
Dorothy Sebastian's headshot

Dorothy Sebastian

Beverly Ames Beckwith
Warner Oland's headshot

Warner Oland

Andrew North
James Gleason's headshot

James Gleason

Fred 'Squint' Dugan
Geneva Mitchell's headshot

Geneva Mitchell

Trixie, North's Companion
Zasu Pitts's headshot

Zasu Pitts

Nora Dugan
June MacCloy's headshot

June MacCloy

Mae Robbins
William Collier Jr.'s headshot

William Collier Jr.

Johnnie Ames

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