King of Gamblers (1937)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 22, 1937Release Date
King of Gamblers (1937)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 22, 1937Release Date
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Plot.
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
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Cast & Crew.
Claire Trevor
Dixie Moore
Lloyd Nolan
Jim Adams
Barlowe Borland
Mr. Parker
Akim Tamiroff
Steve Kalkas
Helen Burgess
Jackie Nolan
Buster Crabbe
Eddie
Robert Florey
Director
Doris Anderson
Writer
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King of Gamblers is a 1937 American crime film directed by Robert Florey and starring Claire Trevor, Lloyd Nolan and Buster Crabbe. Akim Tamiroff takes an unusual featured role as a slot-machine racketeer whose bombing of an uncooperative barber shop leads to a murder charge. (The film was also known as Czar of the Slot Machines.)
By her own account, silent film star Louise Brooks played a bit part in the film for Florey, who "specialised in giving jobs to destitute and sufficiently grateful actresses", referring both to herself and to Evelyn Brent. However, Brooks does not appear in the completed film.