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The Big Gamble

The Big Gamble

Across 30,000 miles to the fabled Ivory Coast!

1961•1h 40m•5.7/10
AdventureActionComedyDrama

Ratings

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5.7/10(6)

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.

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Production

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Stephen Boyd

Stephen Boyd

Vic Brennan

Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco

Marie

David Wayne

David Wayne

Samuel Brennan

Gregory Ratoff

Gregory Ratoff

Kaltenberg

Sybil Thorndike

Sybil Thorndike

Aunt Cathleen

Fernand Ledoux

Fernand Ledoux

Customs Official

Marie Kean

Marie Kean

Cynthia

Harold Goldblatt

Harold Goldblatt

The Priest

Maureen O'Dea

Margaret Brennan

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