
The Big Bluff (1955)
1h 10m | PG-13
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.
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Studio: Planet Filmplays
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Video: 720p
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
Reviews
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, however, the impatient husband and his also married lover decide they need to expedite the process before she finds anything out. The story is quite intriguing, there a few twists and turns and the performances are adequate (not brilliant). I suppose the moral is, if something looks too good to be true, it probably is - and older women need to be wary of gold-digging youngsters with pencil moustaches!