J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
Stars: Gail Patrick, Ricardo Cortez, Akim Tamiroff, Louis Calhern, Tom Brown, June Martel
Crew: Wallace Smith (Screenplay), Robert Bischoff (Editor), Albert S. D'Agostino (Art Direction), Gregory Stone (Music), Edith Head (Costume Design), Edward Ludwig (Director)
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Language: English
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Runtime: 74 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 13, 1937
IMDb: 5
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