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The Girl and the Gambler
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Lew Landers
James Anderson (assistant)
| producer = Cliff Reid
| writer = Joseph A. Fields
Clarence Upson Young
| based_on = play 'The Dove' by Willard Mack
| starring = Tim Holt
Leo Carrillo
| music = Roy Webb
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| studio = RKO Radio Pictures
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| country = United States
| language = English
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'The Girl and the Gambler' is a 1939 Western film, from RKO Radio Pictures, starring Tim Holt. It was an early starring Western for Holt, who soon replaced George O'Brien as the studio's main Western star.
The film was based on a play which had been filmed by RKO in 1932 as 'Girl of the Rio'.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, 'The RKO Story.' New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p132
It was originally called 'The Dove'.
Cast
* Tim Holt as Johnny Powell
* Leo Carrillo as El Rayo
* Steffi Duna as Dolores "The Dove" Romero
* Esther Muir as Madge
* Paul Fix as Charlie
* Donald MacBride as Mike Bascom
Reception
The 'New York Times' called it "a dead duck".
See also
* 'The Dove' (1927)
References
External list
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Category:1939 films
Category:1939 Western (genre) films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:RKO Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films produced by Cliff Reid
Category:Films directed by Lew Landers
Category:American films based on plays
Category:Remakes of American films
Category:1930s American films
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