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Born To Gamble (1935)

• Director
  • Phil Rosen
• Writers
  • Edgar Wallace(suggested by novel "The Green Poropoulos")
  • E. Morton Hough(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Onslow Stevens
  • H.B. Warner
  • Maxine Doyle

  Born to Gamble was one of the more palatable efforts of M.H. Hoffman's poverty-row Liberty Films. The four protagonists are brothers who are "cursed" by their family's gambling bug. All four try to overcome the urge to speculate: only one, the youngest, is successful. Onslow Stevens plays both the lucky brother and his 19th-century riverboat-gambler ancestor. Born to Gamble was Americanized from British writer Edgar Wallace's novel The Greek Poropulos.