Two-Dollar Bettor

Two-Dollar Bettor
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Edward L. Cahn
Produced by	Edward L. Cahn
Starring	Steve Brodie Marie Windsor
Cinematography	Charles Van Enger
Distributed by	Jack Broder Productions Inc.
Release dates	September 9, 1951 (1951-09-09)
Country	United States
Language	English

Two Dollar Bettor is a 1951 black-and-white B-movie film.

Plot

A middle-aged man who 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 by a beautiful con woman and her husband for thousands of dollars. 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 alias John Ramsey

Former Little Rascals star Carl Switzer (Alfalfa) is also in the film.

External links

Two-Dollar Bettor at the Internet Movie Database
Two-Dollar Bettor is available for free download at the Internet Archive

Films directed by Edward L. Cahn

1930s/1940s	The Homicide Squad (1931) Law and Order (1932) Radio Patrol (1932) Afraid to Talk (1932) Emergency Call (1933) Laughter in Hell (1933) Death Drives Through (1935) Confidential (1935) Bad Guy (1937) The Omaha Trail (1942, uncredited) Main Street After Dark (1945) Dangerous Partners (1945) Gas House Kids in Hollywood (1947) The Checkered Coat (1948) I Cheated the Law (1949)

1950s	The Great Plane Robbery (1950) Destination Murder (1950) Experiment Alcatraz (1950) Two-Dollar Bettor (1951) Creature with the Atom Brain (1955) Girls in Prison (1956) The She-Creature (1956) Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956) Runaway Daughters (1956) Flesh and the Spur (1957) Voodoo Woman (1957) Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) Dragstrip Girl (1957) Motorcycle Gang (1957) Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) Jet Attack (1958) Suicide Battalion (1958) Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) Hong Kong Confidential (1958) The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) Guns Girls and Gangsters (1959) Inside the Mafia (1959) Invisible Invaders (1959) Pier 5, Havana (1959) Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959) A Dog's Best Friend (1959)

1960s	Vice Raid (1960) Cage of Evil (1960) Gunfighters of Abilene (1960) The Music Box Kid (1960) Noose for a Gunman (1960) Oklahoma Territory (1960) Three Came to Kill (1960) Twelve Hours to Kill (1960) The Walking Target (1960) Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961) Frontier Uprising (1961) Five Guns to Tombstone (1961) Police Dog Story (1961) Operation Bottleneck (1961) Gun Fight (1961) The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961) When the Clock Strikes (1961) You Have to Run Fast (1961) Secret of Deep Harbor (1961) Gun Street (1962) The Clown and the Kid (1962) Incident in an Alley (1962) Beauty and the Beast (1962)

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