The Big Gamble (1961)
Across 30,000 miles to the fabled Ivory Coast!
100 min
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.
- Release date
- July 25, 1961
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Stephen Boyd as Vic Brennan
- Juliette Gréco as Marie Brennan
- David Wayne as Samuel Brennan
- Gregory Ratoff as Kaltenberg
- Sybil Thorndike as 'Aunt Cathleen'
- Sybil Thorndike as Aunt Cathleen
- Fernand Ledoux as Customs Official
- Marie Kean as Cynthia
- Harold Goldblatt as father Frederick
- Maureen O'Dea as Margaret Brennan
- J.G. Devlin as The Driving Instructor
Crew
- Richard Fleischer · Director
- Elmo Williams · Director
- Irwin Shaw · Writer
- Darryl F. Zanuck · Producer
- Maurice Jarre · Composer
- William C. Mellor · Cinematographer
- Roger Dwyre · Editor