Release Date: 1953-01-29
Overview: Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
Rating: 7.2 / 10
Tyrone Power
as Mark Fallon
Piper Laurie
as Angelique Dureau
Julie Adams
as Ann Conant (as Julia Adams)
John McIntire
as Kansas John Polly
Paul Cavanagh
as Edmond Dureau
Ted Richmond - Producer
Irving Glassberg - Director of Photography
Edward Curtiss - Editor
Rudolph Maté - Director
Seton I. Miller - Screenplay
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