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The Girl and the Gambler (1939)

The Girl and the Gambler poster
Directed by
Lew Landers
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 03m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a Western from the late 1930s. A young man gets involved with a woman and faces trouble in a frontier setting.

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What happens

The Girl and the Gambler is a 1939 Western film, from RKO Radio Pictures, starring Tim Holt. It was an early starring Western for Holt, who soon replaced George O'Brien as the studio's main Western star. The film was based on a play which had been filmed by RKO in 1932 as Girl of the Rio. It was originally called The Dove. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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