Her Husband Lies

Her Husband Lies

HE COULDN'T PLAY STRAIGHT WITH A WOMAN!

NR 1937 · 74 min · ★ 7.0 · Crime, Drama

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.

Directed by Edward Ludwig · Written by Wallace Smith

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Gail Patrick Natalie Martin
Ricardo Cortez J. Ward Thomas
Akim Tamiroff Big Ed Bullock
Louis Calhern Joe Sorrell
Tom Brown Chick Thomas
June Martel Betty Thomas
Dorothy Peterson Dorothy Powell
Ralf Harolde Steve Burdick
Adrian Morris Carwig
Ray Walker Maxie
Jack La Rue 'Trigger'
Bradley Page 'Pug'

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