A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
Acting
Priscilla Lane's poker-face-to-meltdown transitions
Production
Barbary Coast sets that aged better than the script
Costume
Heiress-to-hustler wardrobe arc deserves its own credit
Director
Lloyd Bacon
George Brent
James Kincaid
Priscilla Lane
Coralie Adams
Bruce Cabot
Gerald Forsythe
Lynne Overman
Hector Bailey
Eugene Pallette
Steve Adams
Janet Beecher
Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Blackie
Spencer Charters
Doc Stonebraker
Eleanor Stewart
Millicent Bailey
Georges Renavent
Andres
Marietta Canty
Ruby
Sam McDaniel
Toby
Herbert Rawlinson
Judge
Arthur Hunnicutt
Newspaper Publisher Brett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months after Pearl Harbor, this was Lane's last major role before she left Hollywood to become a nurse—making Coralie's 'I don't need saving' energy accidentally autobiographical.
The 'Silver Queen' was a real Colorado mine; the film shot on Warner's backlot 'Western Street' that burned down in 1953, making this a ghost of lost Hollywood architecture.
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