Any Number Can Play (1949)

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Country: USA
Genres: Drama, War
Release: 1949-07-15
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Writers: Richard Brooks , Edward Harris Heth
Language: English
Stars: Clark Gable (I) (1901–1960) , Alexis Smith , Wendell Corey , Audrey Totter , Frank Morgan (I) (1890–1949) , Mary Astor , Lewis Stone (I) (1879–1953) , Barry Sullivan , Marjorie Rambeau , Edgar Buchanan
Runtime: 112 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Quando Morre uma Ilusão (Brazil) , Any Number Can Play (United States of America) , Faites vos jeux (France, French Republic) , Stigmatismeni zoi (Greece) , Any Number Can Play (United Kingdom) , Hoher Einsatz (Germany) , Penger eller liv (Norway) , Крупная ставка , Waagt uw kans (Belgium) , Caballero nocturno (Mexico) , Fate il vostro gioco (Italy) , Pelikuningas (Finland) , Sista given (Sweden) , Orice număr poate juca (Romania) , Any Number Can Play , Any Number Can Play (Canada) , Faites vos jeux (Canada) , Quando Morre Uma Ilusão (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , De grote inzet (Netherlands the) , ¡Hagan juego! (Spain) , Gevinst hver gang (Denmark) , Faites vos jeux (Belgium)
Plot: Although Charley Kying has owned a casino for fifteen years, on one rainy night events and people seem to converge and threaten his family home and second home, his gambling house. After a doctor secretly diagnoses him with a severe heart condition and recommends that if he continues to subject himself to the daily stress of a professional gambler, he hasn't long to live. Later that day he's made to realize that he's been neglecting his faithful wife for years and abdicated his duties as father to his son, who resents his father's unsavory reputation and rebuffs his interest in attending that night's prom. Charley's weakling brother-in-law, who sponges off him by freeloading at home and cheating him out of petty cash as croupier, agrees to conspire with rival gamblers to cheat Charley out of thousands. Among the others who add stress to what would seem to be Charley's last night in the casino are a rich former girlfriend who proposes they renew their relationship, an old nemesis who's vowing to break the bank at the tables, and an old degenerate gambler and former mentor whose desperation leads him to try to take his own life.
IMDB:tt0041127