Screenplay: Damon Runyon

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is a part of New York society...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warren William · May Robson · Guy Kibbee · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Story of a soft-hearted gangster who organizes his entire gang of thugs to help transform an elderly, rather seedy apple vendor into a perfect society lady. This treatment of a Damon Runyon story was, next to "It's a Wonderful Life,"...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Marlon Brando · Jean Simmons · Frank Sinatra · Vivian Blaine

Synopsis All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jane Bryan · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's son who gets a job as a cop.

Direction Walter Bernstein

Cast Walter Matthau · Julie Andrews · Tony Curtis · Bob Newhart

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Dorothy Dell · Charles Bickford · Shirley Temple

Synopsis The film tells the story of "Marky" (Temple), whose father gives her to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When the man loses his bet and commits suicide, the gangsters are left with the girl...

Direction Chen Chi-Hwa · Jackie Chan

Cast Jackie Chan · Anita Mui · Rose Kwei · Ko Chun-hsiung

Direction George Marshall

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Marjie Millar · Pat Crowley

Synopsis Matt and Dean are in trouble. Dean owes tons of gambling debts. To pay it off, he promises to fix a horse, so that it does not run. To do that, he intends to use his animal lover, veterenian apprentice...

Direction Howard Brookner

Cast Matt Dillon · Jennifer Grey · Madonna · Randy Quaid

Synopsis This film, which incorporates the plots of four Damon Runyon stories, takes place in and around a grand New Year's Eve party in 1928. The guests, many of whose lives intertwine during the evening, include Harriet (Julie Hagerty), the rich...

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Lucille Ball · Henry Fonda · Barton MacLane · Eugene Pallette

Synopsis Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists. Pinks is a shy busboy and Gloria only goes out with men who are loaded....

Direction Harmon Jones

Cast Mitzi Gaynor · Scott Brady · Mitzi Green · Marguerite Chapman

Synopsis A calculating New York bookie hires a talented singer and dancer to entertain his nightclub. She brings her pet bloodhounds with her. This makes his girlfriend jealous, so she considers spilling the beans on his dealings to the feds.

Direction David Butler

Cast The Ritz Brothers · Richard Arlen · Ethel Merman · Phyllis Brooks

Synopsis The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · William Demarest · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked...

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Patricia Ellis · Cesar Romero · Buster Crabbe · William Frawley

Synopsis A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Craig Stevens · Elisabeth Risdon · Knox Manning · Howard Da Silva

Direction Robert B. Sinclair

Cast Ann Sothern · Lewis Stone · Walter Brennan · William Gargan

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Lee Tracy · Helen Mack · William Frawley · Minna Gombell

Synopsis Con artist and racetrack tout Wally Brooks hands a lemon drop to a man in a wheelchair, saying it will cure whatever ails him, then persuades the man, a millionaire named Griggsby, to bet $100 on a horse. Wally knows...

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Ann Dvorak · Helen Chandler · Helen Lowell

Synopsis A gambler hides out for some gangsters in an old lady's house. Later he's arrested for murder but the old woman provides him with an alibi by saying he was with her on the night of the murder.

Direction Peter Webb

Cast Zachary Peirce · Jerry O'Shea · Ivan Cotton · Harry Gaunt

Synopsis A hoodlum named Harry the Horse tries to convince Butch the safecracker to take a job. Butch, long retired from crime, agrees to take the job, but his wife has entrusted him with their infant son. Butch accepts the safecracking...

Direction Robert Stevens · Robert Mulligan · John Peyser · Byron Paul

Cast Rex Marshall · Robert Emhardt · Robert H. Harris · John Baragrey

Synopsis Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show...