A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Phillip Reed
- Steve Wilson
- (as Philip Reed)
Ann Gillis
- Susan Peabody LaRue
- (as Anne Gillis)
Robert Kent
- Jake Sebastian
- (as Douglas Blackley)
Joseph Allen
- Wally Blake--Reporter
- (as Joe Allen Jr.)
Fred Aldrich
- Police Car Driver
- (uncredited)
Don Barclay
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
Benny Bartlett
- McGonigle
- (uncredited)
Gregg Barton
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Gladys Blake
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Christy
- Card Shark
- (uncredited)
Sumner Getchell
- Harvey Cushman--Reporter
- (uncredited)
John Holland
- District Attorney Harding
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Whitman Chambers
- Daniel Mainwaring(uncredited)
- Maxwell Shane(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaThe failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
- Quotes
Susan Peabody LaRue: [putting down her poker hand] Full house, kings on the roof.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown on the playing cards of a gambling table.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Big Town Scandal (1948)
Featured review
Double Dealing
Phillip Reed, newspaper editor, gets himself sweet-talked into hiring the owner's niece, Ann Gillis, who supposedly is attending college and looking for a reporters job. She's not and instead dupes him into looking into the goings-on at a local gambling house, The Winners Club. Reed calls out one of the parlor's operatives for dealing from the bottom of the deck and is quickly overtaken by the club's thugs and drug into meet the owner of this seedy establishment, Richard Travers. After a beating by Travers' gang, Reed ends up hospitalized and wondering what happened to Gillis. Believing that Gillis has been kidnapped, the paper owner, Charles Arnt, is shaken down by Travers for $50,000. Reed then goes on a crusade to expose the gang and recover the $50,000. Hillary Brooke et al is called in to assist with the effort. The plot becomes obvious although the ending had a nice twist. It's pretty slow going overall with low production values. Just a time waster at best.
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- Apr 14, 2017
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Underworld After Dark
- Filming locations
- Los Angeles City Hall - 200 North Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA(N Spring St entrance)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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