Any Number Can Play (1949) Very Rare Romantic Drama
Starring
Clark Gable
Alexis Smith
Wendell Corey
Audrey Totter
Frank Morgan
Although Charley Kying has owned a casino for fifteen years, on one
rainy night events and people seem to converge and threaten his family
home and second home, his gambling house. After a doctor secretly
diagnoses him with a severe heart condition and recommends that if he
continues to subject himself to the daily stress of a professional
gambler, he hasn't long to live. Later that day he's made to realize
that he's been neglecting his faithful wife for years and abdicated his
duties as father to his son, who resents his father's unsavory
reputation and rebuffs his interest in attending that night's prom.
Charley's weakling brother-in-law, who sponges off him by freeloading at
home and cheating him out of petty cash as croupier, agrees to conspire
with rival gamblers to cheat Charley out of thousands. Among the others
who add stress to what would seem to be Charley's last night in the
casino are a rich former girlfriend who proposes they renew their
relationship, an old nemesis who's.....