Ο χαμηλών τόνων τραπεζικός υπάλληλος Νταν Μαχόουνι έχει ένα αχαλίνωτο πάθος: από τότε που ήταν 12 χρονών, δεν έχουν περάσει 72 ώρες χωρίς να στοιχηματίσει. Την ημέρα είναι ένας εργασιομανής κι εξυπηρετικός υπάλληλος και τη νύχτα στοιχηματίζει σε σπορ, άλογα, και καζίνο… Κανείς δεν ξέρει τη διπλή ζωή αυτού του μανιακού τζογαδόρου, του ανθρώπου που πραγματοποίησε τη μεγαλύτερη ατομική απάτη στην ιστορία του Καναδά, αρπάζοντας 10 εκατομμύρια δολάρια σε 18 μήνες για να χορτάσει την εμμονή του με τα στοιχήματα! Η τύχη, όμως, φαίνεται να μην τον ακολουθεί μέχρι το τέλος.

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.

An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.

A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.

Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama

John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.