Two-Dollar Bettor

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Use American English Template:Main otherTemplate:Template otherTemplate:Main other 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 (as Kay La Lavelle)
• Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as Chuck Nordillnger (as Carl Switzer)
• Isabel Randolph as Margaret Adams
• Ralph Reed as Teddy Cosgrove Phelps
• Barbara Billingsley as Miss Pierson (as Barbara Billinley)
• Ralph Hodges as Chester Mitchell
• Madelon Baker as Grace Shepard (as Madelon Mitchell)

See also

• List of films about horse racing

External links

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