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The Big Gamble
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.
Director and cast
- Fred Niblo Director
- William Boyd as Alan Beckwith
- Dorothy Sebastian as Beverly Ames Beckwith
- Warner Oland as Andrew North
- James Gleason as Fred 'Squint' Dugan
- Geneva Mitchell as Trixie, North's Companion
- Zasu Pitts as Nora Dugan
- June MacCloy as Mae Robbins
- William Collier Jr. as Johnnie Ames
- Ralph Ince as Webb
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