The Big Bluff

The Big Bluff

5/6/1955 1h 10m 5.2/10

Overview

When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.

Director

W. Lee Wilder

Top Billed Cast

Eve Miller

Eve Miller

Marsha Jordan

Robert Hutton

Robert Hutton

Dr. Peter Kirk

John Bromfield

John Bromfield

Ricardo De Villa

Martha Vickers

Martha Vickers

Valerie Bancroft

Rosemarie Stack

Rosemarie Stack

Fritzie Darvel (as Rosemarie Bowe)

Max Palmer

Det. Sgt. John Fullmer

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

11/14/2022

6/10

This is quite a decent little crime noir with plenty of scheming and plotting from John Bromfield as "Ricardo De Villa"; a man married to a wealthy woman (Martha Vickers) with a terminal health condition. When her new found marital happiness starts to make things look a little better for the patient, however, the impatient husband and his also married lover decide they need to expedite the process before she finds anything out. The story is quite intriguing, there a few twists and turns and the performances are adequate (not brilliant). I suppose the moral is, if something looks too good to be true, it probably is - and older women need to be wary of gold-digging youngsters with pencil moustaches!

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