Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married.
Is it worth your time? If you like old movies that don't waste time with flowery speeches or happy endings, yeah, watch this. If you need your leads to be likable or morally upright, you're going to have a rough time. This isn't a movie about a guy learning a lesson. It's a movie about a guy who never learns, and frank...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Alfred E. Green
Edward LeSaint
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"Is it worth your time? If you like old movies that don't waste time with flowery speeches or happy endings, yeah, watch this. If you need your leads to be likable or morally upright, you're going to have a rough time. This isn't a movie about a guy learning a lesson. It's a movie about a guy who never learns, and frankly, that's why it works. Edward G. Robinson is playing the kind of guy who smells like cheap cigars and bad luck. He’s Jim, and he lives for the next race. The way he watches a do..."
W.R. Burnett, Brown Holmes, Ralph Block
United States
