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The Girl and the Gambler

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Director
  
Lew Landers

Duration
  

Music director
  
Harry Tierney

Language
  
English

4.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Running time
  
1h 3m

Country
  
United States

The Girl and the Gambler movie poster

Release date
  
June 16, 1939 (1939-06-16)

Based on
  
play The Dove by Willard Mack

Writer
  
Joseph Fields (screenplay), Clarence Upson Young (screenplay), Willard Mack (play), Gerald Beaumont (story)

Screenplay
  
Joseph Fields, Clarence Upson Young

Cast
  
Leo Carrillo
(El Rayo, aka Don José Maria Lopez y Tostado),
Tim Holt
(Johnny Powell),
Steffi Duna
(Dolores 'The Dove' Romero),
Donald MacBride
(Mike Bascom),
Chris-Pin Martin
(Pasqual),
Edward Raquello
(Rodolfo Ramos)

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Tagline
  
Romance runs rampant and fiery adventure flames in this tale of a girl who knew her tamales and out-smarted the smartest man in Mexico.

The Girl and the Gambler is a 1939 Western film starring Tim Holt. It was an early starring Western for Holt who would replace George O'Brien as the studio's main Western star.

Contents

The film was based on a play which had been filmed by RKO in 1932 as Girl of the Rio.

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".

    References

    The Girl and the Gambler Wikipedia
    The Girl and the Gambler IMDb The Girl and the Gambler themoviedb.org