Scenarists Roy Huggins and Halsted Welles were so intent on warning us of the dangers of gambling addiction that they forgot to make the addict interesting. And Michael Gordon is not a director who can surmount that big of a story hole. The result is one of the few dull Babs performances as well as an utterly unremarkable film, despite a nice evocation of desert deco Vegas in the late 40s before it became a multi theme park. Solid C.
Review of The Lady Gambles
