The Mississippi Gambler (1953 film)

The Mississippi Gambler is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Rudolph Mat. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording Leslie I. Carey.

Mark makes the acquaintance of attractive Angelique Dureau and her brother, Laurent, who gets in over his head at cards, losing not only all his money to Mark but a priceless necklace belonging to Angelique. She angrily declines when Mark offers to give it back.Caldwell and his men plot an ambush, but Kansas John is able to help Mark get away to New Orleans safely. There he meets the father of Angelique and Laurent, the sophisticated Edmond Dureau, who is impressed by Mark and wishes his daughter would feel differently toward him. Angelique instead weds a banker, George Elwood. ........

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