Overview

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.

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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'