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...suspense begins to build up when Tommy (Bobby Driscoll), a tenement kid with a habit of telling tall tales, sees a murder. When he tells his sober, hardworking parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy), they do not believe him; neither do the police. But the murderers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) get wind of Tommy's knowledge and decide...
...Lady Gambles (Paramount) gets off to a shocking start with a handsomely photographed sequence showing Barbara Stanwyck taking a brutal beating in a murky underground passage. Barbara's crap-shooting friends have just caught her with a pair of loaded dice...
...possible. Her downfall begins during a brief visit to Las Vegas, where she meets a suave professional gambler (Stephen McNally) and takes her first innocent fling at roulette. While her journalist husband (Robert Preston) is busy on an assignment, she takes a few more flings. By this time Barbara is a goner. Eventually she loses a wrestling match with her moral scruples, gambles away the family savings, and runs off in shame to join forces with Gambler McNally...
Lady pictures the how of a gambler's obsession with a good deal of plausibility. Especially skillful are Barbara Stanwyck's hard-breathing, glitter-eyed performance at the gaming tables, and Russell Metty's feverish camera work in & out of the neon-lighted dens of Las Vegas. The story gets added strength from Stephen McNally's interpretation of a gambler who, for once, appears to be an intelligent character...
Over the years we have learned a good deal about our Canadian readers. They include all of Canada's 20 cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Skater Barbara Ann Scott, and businessmen like Edward P. Taylor, president of Argus Corp., etc. A majority of them are businessmen, of whom 75% are executives. More than 75% of all our readers in Canada live in cities...