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Universal-International. D: Michael Gordon. Barbara Stanwyck is front and center as a sophisticate whose marriage and life hits bottom after becoming addicted to gambling. A virtual time capsule of early Las Vegas locations scripted by Roy Huggins features a sinister gambler (Stephen McNally-aping Bugsy Siegel) reeling in a hooked Babs at his casino named “The Pelican” doubling for The Flamingo which opened three years earlier. With Robert Preston as the distraught husband, Edith Barrett a neurotic sister and John Hoyt, as an unctuous doctor prescribing period pop psychology.
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Universal-International. D: Michael Gordon. Barbara Stanwyck is front and center as a sophisticate whose marriage and life hits bottom after becoming addicted to gambling. A virtual time capsule of early Las Vegas locations scripted by Roy Huggins features a sinister gambler (Stephen McNally-aping Bugsy Siegel) reeling in a hooked Babs at his casino named “The Pelican” doubling for The Flamingo which opened three years earlier. With Robert Preston as the distraught husband, Edith Barrett a neurotic sister and John Hoyt, as an unctuous doctor prescribing period pop psychology.