Jack Pot

Jack Pot

🎞️ Movie 20 min US
โ˜… 6.3 /10 1940

The MGM Crime Reporter introduces James Hollister, the Police Chief of a metropolitan city. He mentions that what may seem like the smallest of crimes or no crime at all may have the biggest negative impact of society, the illegal distribution of slot machines being one such example. Changing the names to protect the innocent, he tells the story of mob boss Rocky Fallon who earned much income for his illegal activities from earnings from slot machines, where the insertion of a nickel here and a nickel there added up to several thousand dollars profit per day. It was such an important component of his business that he inserted a mole into the mayor's office, the mayor who vowed as part of his election to get tough on crime. People who were not even remotely associated with the slot machines, such as dry cleaning business owner Frank Watson, whose life was irrevocable changed for the worse by Rocky, who again could not have done what he did without that slot machine revenue.

Cast

Tom Neal
Tom Neal
Frank Watson
Ann Morriss
Ann Morriss
Rocky's Moll
Edwin Maxwell
Edwin Maxwell
Rocky Fallon
Jean Rouverol
Jean Rouverol
Ruth
Don 'Red' Barry
Don 'Red' Barry
Bryan
Hugh Beaumont
Hugh Beaumont
Mechanic
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John Butler
Cafe Proprietor
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Naomi Childers
Gambling Club Patron
Cliff Clark
Cliff Clark
Police Chief James Hollister
Gene Coogan
Gene Coogan
Fallon Henchman
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Sidney Wagner
Cinematographer