Don't Bet on Blondes (1. Warren William Beats Odds. Maybe it. What a shame that the original story is by Isabel Dawn and Boyce De. Gaw and not Damon Runyon. Warren is star, though overall it’s a middling Warren William title. Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) Hazardzista i bukmacher 'Odds' Owen postanawia zaj. Warner Brothers Don't Bet on Blondes. Don’t Bet on Blondes (1935) Starring Warren William and Claire Dodd. 1935 DON'T BET ON BLONDES TRAILER WARREN WILLIAM captainbijou.com. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 10,261 10K. 1935; Comedy; PT1H 1h 0m NR; Directed by Robert. It has some notable highs and lows. Must have been deafening in the theater! It’s as loud as it looks. I. He decides a change is in order so he turns his sports book into an insurance outfit that handles only the juiciest freak policies of the kind normally associated with Lloyd. The first wave of fun comes in the form of the silly policies. Odds Owen will insure practically anything. Our key policy holder, and easily the most colorful character found in Don. Jefferson Davis Youngblood. The Colonel has spent . ![]() Watch Don't Bet On Blondes movie trailer and get the latest cast info, photos, movie review and more on TVGuide.com.
Everett Markham (Clay Clement), our villain, enters to set him on edge about the possibility of a Yankee son- in- law blocking his path to rewriting history. Markham (Clay Clement) is looking to settle a score with Odds and thinks he. She’s a talented actress happily supporting her delusional father, but what would happen, Markham asks the Colonel, if she were to marry? And what if her husband were the type of man who would cut off funding for the Colonel. When he suggests that the heart of the problem is the Colonel. He overrules Numbers and accepts the strange proposal. The Colonel is to pay $1. That brings us to a couple of good gags as the boys work to prevent a fourth date with a pair of suitors, one of them Errol Flynn in only his second Hollywood role, but Warren. They play out through a host of other characters including the appropriately Runyonesque Brains (Vince Barnett), anything but the genius his name implies. Upon meeting Marilyn, Odds decides to get more directly involved in handling policy 6. B himself. He falls in love with her. When Marilyn grows suspicious of the situation she plies the Colonel with liquor and gets the full story about the policy out of him. That leads to what is perhaps Warren William. I should have had more savvy than to make book on a dame. At this time though, just prior to the start of production on Don’t Bet on Blondes, Warren’s contract was renewed and he received a $5. Del Rio backed out and was replaced by Dodd at the last minute. Shortly thereafter the title of the project was changed from Not on Your Life to the catchier Don’t Bet on Blondes. Later that same year, while Warren was serving a rather cordial suspension for refusing I Found Stella Parish, young Don. Some blamed the story, some the director and others the cast. Thornton Delahanty of the New York Post came down especially hard upon Warren: . Winston Burdett of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle heaped praise on Kibbee, before withdrawing it and stating that he only singled out Kibbee by way of comparison to the rest of the film. Of Warren, he wrote, . Florey had previously directed Warren William in Bedside and Smarty (both 1. Warren’s two most over- the- top titles, either of which makes Don. Florey later directed Warren in 1. Outcast was no doubt their highest quality pairing and more serious in tone than any of the three other romps they had been mutually assigned. Don. There is no doubt Don. Even leading lady Claire Dodd. The movie as a whole is a bit sloppy with a long list of characters moving in and out around Warren and Claire Dodd, none of them but Kibbee really seeming to care too much. Clay Clement is more or less invisible as the villain looking to attach himself to Dodd and destroy Warren in the process. The actual insurance policy that the Colonel takes out on his daughter was more treacherous than Clement. Errol Flynn fans will be disappointed by his total screen time (three minutes), but will be charmed by his second and final scene. Incremental advancement did not follow, but the big juicy plum of a leading role in Captain Blood did! While Guy Kibbee steals every scene he is in, Warren otherwise stands out giving a performance similar in tone to those in his surrounding Perry Mason movies. His Odds Owen is Dave the Dude without any cause but his own. What’s a Warren William movie without a board meeting? Spencer Charters at his left, Vince Barnett nearest at right, William Gargan to the right of Barnett.
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