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The Big Gamble

Across 30,000 miles to the fabled Ivory Coast!
Jul 25, 1961 · 1h 40m
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Action
Comedy
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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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CAST

Stephen Boyd
Vic Brennan
Juliette Gréco
Marie
David Wayne
Samuel Brennan
Gregory Ratoff
Kaltenberg
Sybil Thorndike
Aunt Cathleen
Fernand Ledoux
Customs Official
Marie Kean
Cynthia
Harold Goldblatt
The Priest
Directed by Elmo Williams

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Revenue
—
Production
Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox
Country
US

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