The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
His game is fancy women ... and his fate is Lady Luck !
99 min
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.
- Release date
- January 13, 1953
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Frank Skinner
Trailer
Cast
- Tyrone Power as Mark Fallon
- Piper Laurie as Angelique 'Leia' Dureau
- Julie Adams as Ann Conant
- John McIntire as Kansas John Polly
- Paul Cavanagh as Edmond Dureau
- John Baer as Laurent Dureau
- Ron Randell as George Elwood
- Ralph Dumke as F. Montague Caldwell
- Robert Warwick as Gov. Paul Monet
- William Reynolds as Pierre Loyette
Crew
- Rudolph Maté · Director
- Seton I. Miller · Writer
- Ted Richmond · Producer
- Frank Skinner · Composer
- Irving Glassberg · Cinematographer
- Edward Curtiss · Editor