King of Gamblers
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King of Gamblers is a 1937 American low-budget gangster film directed by Robert Florey. Akim Tamiroff takes an unusual featured role as a slot-machine racketeer whose bombing of an uncooperative barber shop leads to a murder charge. (The film was also known as Czar of the Slot Machines.)
By her own account, silent film star Louise Brooks played a bit part in the film for Florey, who "specialised in giving jobs to destitute and sufficiently grateful actresses", referring both to herself and to Evelyn Brent.<ref>"Louise Brooks, Stardom and Evelyn Brent", Toronto Film Society, January 13, 1975</ref> However, Brooks does not appear in the completed film.
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Cast
- Claire Trevor as Dixie Moore
- Lloyd Nolan as Jim Adams
- Akim Tamiroff as Steve Kalkas
- Buster Crabbe as Eddie
- Helen Burgess as Jackie Nolan
- Porter Hall as George Kramer
- Barlowe Borland as Mr. Parker
- Purnell Pratt as Strohm
- Colin Tapley as Joe
- Paul Fix as Charlie
- Cecil Cunningham as Big Edna
- Fay Holden as Nurse
- Evelyn Brent as Cora
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