J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
Directed by Edward Ludwig
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Cast
Gail Patrick
Natalie Martin
Ricardo Cortez
J. Ward Thomas
Akim Tamiroff
Big Ed Bullock
Louis Calhern
Joe Sorrell
Tom Brown
Chick Thomas
June Martel
Betty Thomas
Dorothy Peterson
Dorothy Powell
Ralf Harolde
Steve Burdick
Adrian Morris
Carwig
Ray Walker
Maxie
Jack La Rue
'Trigger'
Bradley Page
'Pug'
Paul Fix
Lefty Harkis
Mary Gordon
Mrs. Jenks
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