The Big Town
Lady luck is always on his side. Tonight, she's on fire.
Directed by Ben Bolt
Produced by Albacore Productions Inc., Columbia Pictures
A 1950s noir-tinged drama about a small-town gambler seduced by big-city fortune, women, and danger, caught between ambition and the consequences of his choices.
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
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