The Lady Gambles

“Once she was someone's wife ... now she's just someone's luck !”

Joan Boothe (Barbara Stanwyck) goes to Las Vegas with her husband David (Robert Preston), a reporter chasing a story, and starts playing the tables to fill the hours. The casino manager, Horace Corrigan (Stephen McNally), keeps her welcome, and soon she is dipping into David's expense money. Michael Gordon stays close on Stanwyck's face as the pull of the game takes hold.