Don't Gamble with Strangers

Kane Richmond and Bernadene Hayes are a couple of card sharps hustling people who think they know how to play poker. When they hit a new town, Miss Hayes thinks their partnership will continue. She discovers that Richmond has quite a past and plans for the future.

It's a Monogram movie directed by William Beaudine, so you might want to give this one a miss. The performers and crew try their best, with some nice noir lighting by cameraman William Sickner, but the script is pretty straightforward, and Beaudine was not the director to seek out depths; he started directing for Biograph towards the end of Griffith's time there, and through the early sound era, he was an accomplished journeyman. However a period in Britain left him out of favor when he returned to Hollywood, and he was relegated to the cheapest of B movies, prized for his ability to get the most script pages on film during a day's shooting, rather than excellence.