Any Number Can Play

Any Number Can PlayCareer. Love. Family. You play the cards life deals you. Casino owner Charley Kyng has taken plenty of risks through the decades, known plenty of wins and losses. But now the stakes are suddenly raised. Hollywood's legendary King, Clark Gable, portrays Kyng, faced at once with failing health, crooks seeking a big score from his posh establishment and the homelife pressures of a devoted wife (Alexis Smith) and son (Darryl Hickman) who want him to leave

Chester Morris leads the cast in this tight

An American is kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain

Aided by a museum curator (Martin Gabel)

who divorced their father years earlier

But "The Big Apple" shows little sympathy for a cocky

Miles finds himself caught up in a bizarre series of events involving blackmail

Lionel Barrymore plays the big shot scheming to keep his enamored son (Franchot Tone) away from Eadie

trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and take on Shute

The film follows college student Michael Harvey (Richard Cromwell) and his sweetheart (Wilson)

then a scheming realtor (Jerome Cowan)

Statements are issued

Marion Davies has stars in her eyes in this "delightful look at silent Hollywood" (Time Out Film Guide)