The Big Bluff

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.

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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...

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