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Director: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
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From Time Out Film Guide
A characteristically slick (if moralising) script by Hecht and fine camerawork from Garmes can't quite prevent tedium setting in as the excellent cast play a group of moral down-and-outs (embezzler, con-man, dancer, disillusioned playwright) who see the light and discover that life is worth living during a night's gambling in a New York café. The problem lies less in the pacing - as one would expect with Hecht, it moves along quickly enough - than in the incursions of uplifting sentiment into the generally downbeat proceedings.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
Producer: Ben Hecht
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, George Watts full cast
Duration: 80 mins
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