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Two-Dollar Bettor
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Wikipedia article
'Two Dollar Bettor' is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Steve Brodie, Marie Windsor and John Litel.
Plot
A middle-aged man places a two-dollar bet on a horse at the track and wins. The widower with two teenaged daughters becomes hooked on gambling and within a week he begins cashing in his life savings to pay off his bookie. To make matters worse, he's being grifted for thousands of dollars by a beautiful con woman and her husband. To try to get even, the man begins betting on long shots.
Cast
* Steve Brodie as Rick Bowers, alias Rick Slate
* Marie Windsor as Mary Slate
* John Litel as John Hewitt
* Barbara Logan as Nancy Hewitt
* Robert Sherwood as Phillip Adams
* Barbara Bestar as Diane 'Dee' Hewitt
* Walter Kingsford as Carleton P. Adams
* Don Shelton as George Irwin
* Kay Lavelle as Grandma Sarah Irwin (as Kay La Lavelle)
* Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as Chuck Nordillnger (as Carl Switzer)
* Isabel Randolph as Margaret Adams
* Ralph Reed as Teddy Cosgrove Phelps
* Barbara Billingsley as Miss Pierson (as Barbara Billinley)
* Ralph Hodges as Chester Mitchell
* Madelon Baker as Grace Shepard (as Madelon Mitchell)
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