Two-Dollar Bettor
Two Dollar Bettor is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Steve Brodie, Marie Windsor and John Litel.
Plot
A middle-aged man places a two-dollar bet on a horse at the track and wins. The widower with two teenaged daughters becomes hooked on gambling and within a week he begins cashing in his life savings to pay off his bookie. To make matters worse, he's being grifted for thousands of dollars by a beautiful con woman and her husband. To try to get even, the man begins betting on long shots.Cast
- Steve Brodie as Rick Bowers, alias Rick Slate
- Marie Windsor as Mary Slate
- John Litel as John Hewitt
- Barbara Logan as Nancy Hewitt
- Robert Sherwood as Phillip Adams
- Barbara Bestar as Diane 'Dee' Hewitt
- Walter Kingsford as Carleton P. Adams
- Don Shelton as George Irwin
- Kay Lavelle as Grandma Sarah Irwin
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as Chuck Nordillnger
- Isabel Randolph as Margaret Adams
- Ralph Reed as Teddy Cosgrove Phelps
- Barbara Billingsley as Miss Pierson
- Ralph Hodges as Chester Mitchell
- Madelon Baker as Grace Shepard