The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Un gruppo di giovani scapoli fa una scommessa, ogni anno devono mettere 200 dollari in un fondo comune e alla fine chi rimarrà scapolo prenderà tutto. Dopo molti anni tutti gli scapoli si sono sposati, tutti a parte Michael, che ha un grosso debito di gioco e Kyle, che vuole fare sesso con tutte le donne del mondo. Per prendersi la scommessa Michael convince Natalie , una donna che ha avuto rapporti con Kyle e che lui considera la donna della sua vita, a sposare Kyle cosi da dividersi la scommessa.
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Dichiarato ufficialmente morto da Scotland Yard, Sherlock Holmes indaga in gran segreto (e con l'aiuto del fido assistente Watson) su una serie di inspiegabili suicidi verificatisi a Londra. Molti uomini, infatti, sembrano essersi tolti la vita al culmine di una follia crescente, ma tutti gli indizi raccolti, compresa la presenza sulla scena del crimine di alcuni ragni velenosi, portano fino all'ammaliante Adrea Spedding, la proprietaria di un circolo di giocatori.
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
Un incallito giocatore di cavalli riesce ad azzeccare una grossa vincita. La notizia si dilaga immediatamente in tutta la città. Cambiando radicalmente la vita dell'uomo.
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
Quando Joan Boothe accompagna il marito-reporter David a Las Vegas, inizia a giocare d'azzardo per passare il tempo mentre lui sta scrivendo un articolo. Incoraggiata dal direttore del casinò, diventa dipendente dal gioco d'azzardo, al punto da "prendere in prestito" i soldi delle spese di David per perseguire la sua dipendenza. Il loro matrimonio si rompe definitivamente, ma David continua a cercare di aiutarla.
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.
A house by the sea has stood vacant for many years, after misfortune befell several owners, which an artist painting the house explains to a passergy. A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.
Alan is a gambler desperate to erase the huge sports debt he owes to a cruel but quirky Chicago mobster.
A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
Comedian and presenter Lloyd Griffith embarks on an experiment to find out if he can uncover the secrets of gambling success and in the process learn the truth about how the industry operates.