The Gamblers

This film was about Wall Street four months before the crash. The Vitaphone discs reside at the Library of Congress, but the film itself is lost.

Jason Robards Sr. (Carvel Emerson) and George Fawcett (Emerson Jr.) play a father-and-son team who gamble their firm's assets. Emerson Jr. Is caught investing money that does not belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The district attorney handling the case (H. B. Warner) is the husband of his former sweetheart. This gives the district attorney an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival. H. B. Warner, being 53, is hard to picture as a legitimate romantic rival. Maybe that is why he is playing someone so vindictive?

The movie poster has an old style stock ticker on it, with numerous people shown as twisted up and trapped in the tape coming out of the machine. Thus a likely theme of the film was greed and excess, which was a favorite theme of the early works of director Michael Curtiz.

The film was praised as expertly directed by the New York Times, with the dialogue scenes being quite polished as opposed to Curtiz' earlier directorial efforts that employed sound.