The Big Bluff

Unrated

6/5/19551h 10m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Revealing! Startling! Searing! ~

Overview:

When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.

Director:

W. Lee Wilder

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

infidelity
california
waitress
alibi
heart disease
con artist
film noir
doctor
millionaire
policeman
marriage for money
art dealer
coroner
deceit
exotic dancer
jealous husband
companion
duplicity
medication investigation
latin

Cast

John Bromfield

~ as ~

Ricardo De Villa

Martha Vickers

~ as ~

Valerie Bancroft

Robert Hutton

~ as ~

Dr. Peter Kirk

Rosemarie Stack

~ as ~

Fritzie Darvel (as Rosemarie Bowe)

Eve Miller

~ as ~

Marsha Jordan

Max Palmer

~ as ~

Det. Sgt. John Fullmer

Eddie Bee

~ as ~

Don Darvel

Robert Bice

~ as ~

Dr. Tom Harrison

Pierre Watkin

~ as ~

Mr. Winthrop

Mitchell Kowall

~ as ~

Coroner

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
This is quite a decent little crime noir with plenty of scheming and plotting from John Bromfield as "Ricardo De Villa"; a man married to a wealthy woman (Martha Vickers) with a terminal health condition. When her new found marital happiness starts to make things look a little better for the patient, however, the impatient husband and his also married lover decide they need to expedite the process before she finds anything out. The story is quite intriguing, there a few twists and turns and the performances are adequate (not brilliant). I suppose the moral is, if something looks too good to be true, it probably is - and older women need to be wary of gold-digging youngsters with pencil moustaches!