King of Gamblers

1937
Approved
1h 18m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

106

YOUR RATING

Lloyd Nolan, Akim Tamiroff, and Claire Trevor in King of Gamblers (1937)

Action Crime Drama Romance

A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy. SPOILERS: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount's resident crime lord, runs all the illegal gambling activities in a major city. R... Read allA fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy. SPOILERS: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount's resident crime lord, runs all the illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter Lloyd Nolan struggles to get the goods on Tamiroff, but runs up against a stone wa... Read allA fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy. SPOILERS: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount's resident crime lord, runs all the illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter Lloyd Nolan struggles to get the goods on Tamiroff, but runs up against a stone wall until he meets sexy but tough nightclub singer Claire Trevor (obviously dubbed). Trevor... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

106

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Seattle Wednesday 11 March 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).

Quotes
Jim Adams: [eating toast] You know, believe it or not, this is the first food that's passed my lips in days - that is, going in this direction.

Soundtracks
Hate to Talk About Myself
Music by Ralph Rainger and Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Leo Robin

User reviews6

Review

Featured review

Fast and furious early crime flick

This short crime movie belongs to the list of those that Paramount studios produced by the end of the thirties, starring the likes of Lloyd Nolan, Akim Tamiroff, Anthony Quinn, Buster Crabbe...and directed by film makers as Louis King and Robert Florey. It reminds the Warner style of directing, fast paced, rough, not comedy, so exciting. Besides this one there were : ROAD GANG, ILLEGAL TRAFFIC, UNDERCOVER DOCTOR, TIP OFF GIRLS.... I highly recommend all of them. This one belongs to the best of those. Tamiroff is excellent in this role seemed to have been made for him, and not so far from his character in also Robert Florey's DANGEROUS TO KNOW,a gangster in love with a woman not from his world. I know that they are all hard to find in those days. I am lucky to have them all in my library.