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The Big Bluff

The Big Bluff (1955)

1h 10m | PG-13

⭐ 5.2 / 10

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

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Cast

John Bromfield

John Bromfield

as Ricardo De Villa

Martha Vickers

Martha Vickers

as Valerie Bancroft

Robert Hutton

Robert Hutton

as Dr. Peter Kirk

Rosemarie Stack

Rosemarie Stack

as Fritzie Darvel (as Rosemarie Bowe)

Eve Miller

Eve Miller

as Marsha Jordan

Max Palmer

Max Palmer

as Det. Sgt. John Fullmer

Reviews

By 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, 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!