Two-Dollar Bettor

Two Dollar Bettor is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Steve Brodie, Marie Windsor and John Litel.

Plot
A middle-aged man places a two-dollar bet on a horse at the track and wins. The widower with two teenaged daughters becomes hooked on gambling and within a week he begins cashing in his life savings to pay off his bookie. To make matters worse, he's being grifted for thousands of dollars by a beautiful con woman and her husband. To try to get even, the man begins betting on long shots.

Cast

 * Steve Brodie as Rick Bowers, alias Rick Slate
 * Marie Windsor as Mary Slate
 * John Litel as John Hewitt
 * Barbara Logan as Nancy Hewitt
 * Robert Sherwood as Phillip Adams
 * Barbara Bestar as Diane 'Dee' Hewitt
 * Walter Kingsford as Carleton P. Adams
 * Don Shelton as George Irwin
 * Kay Lavelle as Grandma Sarah Irwin (as Kay La Lavelle)
 * Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as Chuck Nordillnger (as Carl Switzer)
 * Isabel Randolph as Margaret Adams
 * Ralph Reed as Teddy Cosgrove Phelps
 * Barbara Billingsley as Miss Pierson (as Barbara Billinley)
 * Ralph Hodges as Chester Mitchell
 * Madelon Baker as Grace Shepard (as Madelon Mitchell)