FORMAT: DVD (REWATCH)
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
(As posted on August 18th, 2007)
A happily married woman named Mae (Martha Chapin) gets bored of dull bridge parties and gets sucked into the world of underground gambling. Slowly but surely, she becomes indebted to the seedy gangster Lucky Wilder (Wheeler Oakman) and she’s soon reduced to becoming an escort girl to pay off her gambling debts. Wilder also lures her sister into the gambling racket and when she ends up dead under mysterious circumstances, Mae guns down Lucky while the place gets raided by the cops. This flick is more realistic and believable and is more stylish than most “educational” exploitation fare of the time. It also has considerable skill in front and behind the camera, but that doesn’t necessarily make it “better”. The main problem with the film is that gambling isn’t as taboo or shocking as say sex and drugs. It’s also padded with too much footage of boxing, wrestling and chorus girls to boot. Oakman also starred in such Adults Only films as Escort Girl and Slaves in Bondage.
AKA: The Vice Racket.
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