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Original title

High Stakes

Year

1931

Running time

72 min.

Country

United States

Director

Lowell Sherman

Screenwriter

J. Walter Ruben

Cast

Music

Max Steiner

Cinematography

J. Roy Hunt (B&W)

Producer

RKO Radio Pictures

Genre

Comedy. Drama. Romance | Romantic Comedy

Synopsis

After Richard "Dick" Lennon, a middle-aged rubber magnate and widower, marries young, silly Dolly Jordan, he is criticized by his butler, Murray, and his alcoholic brother Joe. Although Dick maintains that Dolly truly loves him and wants to bear his heir, Joe, an unproduced playwright, is skeptical and uses his drunken, acerbic wit to question Dolly's motives.

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High Stakes

1931

Lowell Sherman